In today's job market, sixty-four of every 100 American adults is working compared with 52 in 1929 and 55 in 1967. "And although discrimination continues, women and minorities have far more opportunities than ever before. Blacks, for example, now have 7% of the nation's management and executive jobs. There aren't even good records of what that number was in the Sixties" (Lambro, 1996, 3).
In 1992, President Clinton promised to create 8 million new jobs by the year 2000. He accomplished that in 1996, although there is strong debate concerning the quality of those jobs, specifically over the question of whether they are part-time and low-wage or full-time and high-wage jobs. The House Republican Conference, for instance, claims that all but 758,000 of the jobs created since 1992 are part-time (defined as anything less than 30 hours of work a week).
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