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Manufacturers have been using technology to cut blue-collar jobs for years. Now, they're targeting their white-collar workers, too.

Among Millennial workers, 78 percent say innovation is necessary for business growth, according to a new survey by Deloitte.

As employers are becoming increasingly focused on re-skilling their employees, overall spending on training jumped 12 percent in 2012.

The nations labor unions suffered sharp declines in membership last year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Wednesday, led by losses in the public sector as cash-strapped state and local governments laid off workers and in some cases limited collective bargaining rights.

Five years after the start of the Great Recession, the toll is terrifyingly clear: Millions of middle-class jobs have been lost in developed countries the world over. And the situation is even worse than it appears.

As large changes are in the works regarding the federal fiscal policy, uncertainty is expected to continue, causing a temporary drop in economic growth during the first half of 2013, but a stronger private sector is projected to expand the economy during the second half of the year.