Forgotten Workers
With all of the talk of a moratorium on drilling in the Gulf, one group of workers gets little national attention: Rig workers. The NYT has an article looking at the impact a drilling ban would have on these skilled employees. A sample: "The securities firm Raymond James & Associates predicts that the moratorium could last well into 2011, directly jeopardizing 50,000 jobs and potentially gutting blue-collar communities that rely heavily on the economic activity that comes with deepwater work."
