Middle-Class Job Losses Batter Workforce

By KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN Associated Press Writer
© 2006 The Associated Press

LANSING, Mich. — Thirty years ago, Dan Fairbanks looked at the jobs he could get with his college degree and what he could make working the line at General Motors Corp., and decided the GM job looked better.

He still thinks he made the right choice. But with GM planning to end production of the Chevrolet SSR and shut down the Lansing Craft Centre where he works sometime in mid-2006, Fairbanks faces an uncertain future.