How Strong is the Current US Job Market?

Two perspectives:

From $22 an hour to $11: GM job cuts in Ohio show a hot economy is still leaving parts of America behind

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/from-22-an-hour-to-11-gm-job-cuts-in-ohio-show-a-hot-economy-is-still-leaving-parts-of-america-behind/2019/03/05/241b2784-3b80-11e9-a2cd-307b06d0257b_story.html

Inside the Hottest Job Market in Half a Century

https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-the-hottest-job-market-in-half-a-century-11551436201

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Long-Term Structural Perspective - The Gig Economy or is it The Servant Economy?

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/what-happened-uber-x-companies/584236/

ALEXIS C. MADRIGAL

“… the trend was most easily summed up by the way so many starry-eyed founders pitched their company: Uber for X.

This micro-generation of Silicon Valley start-ups did two basic things: It put together a labor pool to deliver food or clean toilets or assemble IKEA bookshelves, and it found people who needed those things done. Academics called this a “two-sided market,” but to a user, it meant tapping on a phone and watching the world rearrange itself to satisfy your desires. Convenience drove consumer demand. Economic need and work flexibility drove the labor supply. At least in theory.”