How the computer revolution is deepening the partisan divide (Brown, American, political)

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Here are links to an interesting article by Ron Brownstein and a study from Brookings that was the basis for the article, on the increasing needs for computer skills in jobs today as compared to in 2000, how areas of the country compare with each other and how they measure up politically.

Those areas with higher levels of computer skills tend to have higher levels of average income and tend to be blue; those with lesser levels of digital skills tend to be red.

In 2002, only 5% of all jobs required high digital skills with 40% needing medium digital skills and 56% only requiring low skills.

Now, 23% of all jobs require high digital skills, 48% require medium skills and only 30% of jobs only require low skills.

The average pay for the 3 digital levels is striking. For high digital requirement jobs it’s $72,896; for medium it’s $48,274 and for low it’s $30,393. The average pay for high digital requirement jobs is rising at a rate double of that of the medium skill sector, with the average pay of low digital skill requirement jobs actually falling.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/11/21/p...ics/index.html

https://www.brookings.edu/research/d...can-workforce/