A Tale Of Two Countries: The Growing Divide Between Silicon Valley And Unemployed America

Editor’s note : Guest contributor Jon Bischke is a founder of RG Labs and is an advisor to Altius Education , Fatminds and Udemy . You can follow him @jonbischke . For people who spend most of their days within a few blocks of tech start-up epicenters such as South Park in San Francisco, University Avenue in Palo Alto or the Flatiron district in New York, last week’s jobs report must have created some cognitive dissonance. After all, we’re in a boom/bubble right? It’s really hard to hire good people isn’t it? But take a moment to step outside the world of high technology and a dramatically different picture emerges of what’s going on in America.