10 Industries That Will Lose The Most Jobs In Next Decade

In a long-term assessment of employment data released last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics surveyed the country's jobs landscape and developed a picture of how it's likely to evolve over the next ten years.

As the population ages and manufacturing jobs wane, much of the next decade's employment growth is expected to be in service industries -- such as health care services or business services -- which are projected to make up a whopping 96% of the increase in new employment.

But if some industries flourish in the new economy, others are likely to deteriorate -- and slash jobs. And in the report, the government pointed to ten struggling industries that it says are likely to hemorrhage the most jobs in the next decade.

Did your industry make the list? Check them out below:

#10 Wired telecommunications carriers, -73,000

The Bureau of Labor Statistic predicts that the wired telecommunications industry, which provided 666,000 jobs in 2008, will lose 11% of its employment opportunities by the end of the next decade.

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[invest in jobs]

09:42 AM on 12/17/2009

Jobless claims up again
so much for that V shaped recovery...
good articles; http://financeopinionss.blogspot.com

Time for a 2nd jobs stimulus

[PragmaticStatistic]

10:53 PM on 12/16/2009

Considering that newspapers, the postal service and printing industry are all in the top 10 most job loosing industries, then graphic design, marketing and advertising will be as well. As a marketing manager/graphic designer, I should consider my self lucky to be close to retiring and collecting Social Security.

[jeffbwillis]

08:09 PM on 12/16/2009

We should kill the bill and start over. We can and will get universal health care. However, this bill is so "bastardized" that it cannot be considered anything other than a failure. President Obama will obviously lose face. But, this is not about him. It is about getting the best possible solution to a growing problem. Like everything else, it will require compromise. However, most people want universal health care. There is a good argument for allowing insurance companies to compete across state lines. This measure, in conjuction with a "payroll tax" that would fund a "catastropic health insurance pool" could pass with bi-partisan support. This would take care of the people with "pre-existing conditions" naturally. The winners would be all of the American people. The losers would be the insurance companies. The President needs to lead the charge to "get this right. This is about America. Everything else is secondary.

[rkimball]

02:53 PM on 12/16/2009

obama thinks he has problems. the next president will have to deal with perminent 25% full blown unemployment.

in very near future, people will kill just for a minimum wage, no benefits, part time, security guard job.

[rkimball]

02:44 PM on 12/16/2009

most of these jobs are at the very heart of american industry. ten years on we'll become a nation of shelf stockers of shoddy chinese goods at wal mart, security guards or burger flippers at mc d. we will be a nation of minimum wage earners competing with illegals for those very jobs.

[ResearchtheFacts]

02:00 PM on 12/16/2009

From looking at this list the real question is what will be left?

*Political positions and government
*Health Care positions for the millions they are making sick today?
*Wall Street and they should have added banking for average americans to this list soon to be obsolete because no employment equals no money to bank. For the top 10% business as ususal.
*The Funeral Industry for the masses who will be dying from hunger and sickness.

Anyone else care to complete the list?

[rkimball]

02:57 PM on 12/16/2009

a few new future growth industries include prositution, tatto parlors, pawn shops, gun shops, drug trafficing, human trafficing & adult book stores.

coming soon to a neigborhood near you.

[ResearchtheFacts]

04:05 PM on 12/16/2009

lol forgot the underbelly of society. All jokes aside you are probably dead on point unfortunately for the masses based on the before mentioned.

[yappnmutt]

02:57 AM on 12/16/2009

these are all jobs usans don't want anyway

[texasteph12570]

11:04 AM on 12/16/2009

Unemployment is at 10 percent, near the postwar high of 1983. Fifteen million Americans are out of work. Ten million more have given up looking or are working fewer hours than they would like.

We have been losing jobs every month for two years.

Why, then, are we still bringing immigrants into the United States at a rate of 125,000 a month to take jobs from fellow Americans and compete with our unemployed for the jobs that open up?

In the last year, 1.5 million new immigrants have come to take up residence and been issued work permits. Probably twice as many jobs have been taken by these folks as the 650,000 the Obamaites claim were saved or created by their $787 billion stimulus package. How do Democrats justify this?

How can they justify bringing in another 1.5 immigrants in 2010 and another 1.5 million in 2011, when 25 million Americans they are supposed to represent are unemployed or underemployed?

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34728

[capitaldysfunction]

12:39 PM on 12/16/2009

At one time I agreed with you, at least about immigration. Hillary Clinton admitted while running for President in 2008 that it is negatively impacting many of our unemployed. But I've come to believe Hispanic immigration will also have positive results. Texas will be a Democrat state within ten years and those who are too conservitive, like yourself, will be banished from the body politic. I see CONservitism and corruption as two sides of the same coin. When that coin is tossed into the Rio Grande, America will be the better for it.

[Mari McAvenia]

02:31 PM on 12/16/2009

Two words: Cheap Labor.

I think we're all clear on the reason why so many people want to come to the USA.
It's for the money.
Very few - if any- of the new immigrants I deal with, everywhere, everyday are here because they are refugees from murderous foreign regimes. The US just happens to be the murder capital of the world and living here, rather than in a European country, for example, multiplies one's risk of being killed by another person dramatically. So, they're not coming here for personal safety.
Employers want to pay workers as little as possible while squeezing the most effort and energy out them. It's a bottom line thing. They make up false reasons to mask this fact, such as, "immigrants will do the jobs that Americans won't do". This is simply not true.
I have done and will do anything, from heavy lifting to toilet scrubbing, when I need work.
I will do it well and "cheaply", too. Every American I know feels the same way. But, the convenient prejudice persists that all Americans are lazy and squeamish when it comes to work.
This practice has not only destroyed American individuals, families and communities, it has created a moral void in the culture. Like slavery was, 150 years ago, today's importation of cheap foreign workers - by the tens of millions- is a blight on our American society and it needs to be seen as such. Now, please hand me that mop...

[kassandrasduplex]

11:47 PM on 12/15/2009

So we need better education? How many engineers are necessary? How many architects? Doctors? etc.
Seems to me a Third World economy is characterized by Banana Republics where the top 1% owns everything....oh, right....that's the way it is now in America.
Back in the days when Americans owned more and had a larger middle class, they didn't need to be genius mathematicians to survive. But now that the top 1% owns more than the bottom 95% combined (just like is most 3rd world dives) the pressure is on to be something most people cannot ever be. China's booming economy isn't so much because they have a First World education, it's because they took over the manufacturing industry with average wages of $200 a month. And global capital fled to their shores.

[texasteph12570]

11:39 PM on 12/15/2009

why are we still importing millions of immigrants when millions of americans are out of work. because they are not serious about jobs or immigration, for the empowerment of the unions.

[considerthis]

10:36 AM on 12/16/2009

I disagree. The problem is not the importing of people, it's the export of jobs and the greed and unethical business practices.

[texasteph12570]

11:01 AM on 12/16/2009

why are allowing 120,000 immigrants into this country every month? millions of americans are out of work. why shoot yourself in the foot?

why, is because the immigrant population is a fresh resource for the labor unions since american workers are exiting in droves.

how about greed and unethical labor / dem party practices?

[Troubledwawa]

08:18 PM on 12/15/2009

Here's the BLS chart that this article references:

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecopro.t04.htm

And here's where the BLS predicts the job growth will come from in the next 10 years:

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecopro.t02.htm

[bluescat47]

08:09 PM on 12/15/2009

It fails to point out that there is a huge growth of jobs in the STEM category (Science, Technology, Enginering, and Math) and that the U.S. is going to have trouble filling them because of a shortage of qualified people. Even talented foreigners, Indian, Chinese programmers,etc, wont be available as many are now staying home (or returning home) because of better opportunities.
That is why states are scrambling to improve education, especially in the area of science and technology, and promote job retraining. Also, the number of unskilled jobs, estimated to be around 90 million or so, will have something like 145 million applicants. Not a pretty situation for our economy. As one economist has said about America, if you have a third world education you will end up with a third world income.

[shanedr]

09:59 PM on 12/15/2009

If that were true how come we have qualified people who can't find a job. Could it be they expect to be treated well while foreign workers will accept mistreatment.

[gaholiday]

10:34 PM on 12/15/2009

There are plenty of qualified people , but it's just cheaper to do the work in other countries. Work will continue to be lost because jobs that normally went to entry level people is also sent overseas basically destroying the ability for people to gain real work experience. Unless NAFTA , CAFTA and MFNT status along with attention to Indian outsourcing is paid to we will continue to lose jobs , knowledge and competitive advantage.

[steppenwolfsayshi]

10:35 PM on 12/15/2009

I agree. You're drinking the government Kool-Aid. The only strong hiring in science jobs right now are in some types of engineering. There is a "skills gap" because companies have started asking for obscenely narrow qualifications for low and mid-level positions. I recently applied to pharma company, very standard job, that was looking for an entry-level candidate with 2-5 years who was familiar with THEIR own data entry program. The program is only used by them and this is the lowest level position at the company.

[KataVideo]

07:59 PM on 12/15/2009

Okay, I hate to harp on this, but this story is about American Jobs, right? The department store photo is Takashimaya in Tokyo. 'Been there many times. You can even see the "Takashimaya" sign on the escalators. I'm just saying H-P, you probably intended to use a photo of an American store.

[Wendy Rosner]

12:56 PM on 12/16/2009

there is a takashimaya in nyc.

[KataVideo]

05:36 PM on 12/16/2009

Yes, but that photo is not it. It's Takashimaya Times Square just outside the Minami Exit of Shinjuku Station. On the other side of the escalators is "Tokyu Hands". With a "u".

[GorillaThriller]

07:28 PM on 12/15/2009

The man at the gas station looks like he's wearing a disguise.

[Mari McAvenia]

07:10 PM on 12/15/2009

Fantastic. The headline should have read: "Butt wiping and corpse burning, new growth industries in the USA."

Thanks for the great news, old as it is.

[kassandrasduplex]

11:50 PM on 12/15/2009

LOL.
It's time for a redistribution of wealth. That'll solve the Third World stuff pretty quick.

[Dnietz]

02:55 AM on 12/16/2009

we need a large mass of people to be driven to stand up

and we need even more to sympathize with that cause

i don't see it yet

most americans i know stopped talking about all issues and are just holding their breath waiting for the economy to get better. they expect it to just get turned around sometime soon

if it does, i think the majority will be celebrating again and will forget the 20 other issues that we thought were critical just 2 years ago.

but likely it won't, so i don't know how these people will react in 1 year when everything is still bad and looking down. i see around me people that are easily manipulated.

i know i'm being a pessimist, but someone please point out a reason (evidence) that i should be more optimistic about our fellow americans

[really47]

06:52 PM on 12/15/2009

I remember the talk about Proccessing and Refining American Products.. and R&D..so I would guess this still is the wave--slapping at the economy..looking at JOBS..moving away..for me it seems that America let it-self lose its GRIP--on innovation..we held on too JOBS..as if there was no tommorow..all the while..business was complaining about losses due to theft and wrong doing..Insurance Fraud was always a place for "nose picking" economy destroyers..if its a simple matter--its a matter of trouble COSTING less somewhere else..America didn't have its employment OUTSOURCED..America became a problem that could be IGNORED--by out-sourcing its cost(issues)and cheating-days thinking it was a Class Struggle--instead..it was a dis-agreeable point to bring about the dis-aggreement of the victims..its NOT outsourcing..its running away.