Technological progress offers new job avenues for America's workers
Online gigs may be contributing to a revival of the labour force participation rate
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DONALD Trump won the US presidency by promising to create a jobs boom for the middle-wage worker. It's questionable whether sorting YouTube videos of dancing babies is what voters exactly had in mind.
Yet, that's the kind of work that Rochelle LaPlante, 34, has ended up doing. She quit a salaried office job in Seattle to spend more time with her family, but to help pay the bills she's taking up "e-lancing" - performing digital tasks, such as categorising online content. For all of Mr Trump's evocation of re-industrialising the future, from re-opening coal mines to reviving manufacturing, Ms LaPlante's new gig epitomises the type of work that is increasingly available to America right here and now.
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