blue-collar
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Building data centers that run AI models is creating thousands of jobs, lifting wages for blue-collar workers and boosting gross domestic product, said Sacks, the face of the Trump administration’s AI strategy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
The kind of job insecurity that once seemed the province of hourly, blue-collar jobs haunts white-collar professions these days.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026
The lunchtime crowd — high schoolers, blue-collar types, the elderly — waited patiently for their orders.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026
Certain blue-collar jobs have seemed fairly susceptible to AI disruption as well, with robots already playing a role in things like factory and warehouse automation.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 12, 2026
Constructive interventions would have been good not only for African Americans trapped in ghettos, but also for blue-collar workers of all colors, many of whom were suffering too, if less severely.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
