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24% more customer service reps. almost 18 percent more registered nurses. 16% more secretaries and 12% more waiters. there are more folks working retail counters and earning more paychecks as janitors. most of the higher paying fields are not growing or havent made up all the losses they saw during the recession. bill: who is filling these lower-wage jobs, peter? >> reporter: bill a lot of people with four-year college degrees. >> college grads, grads of all kind, are facing stiff competition fr...

The nations jobs lost during the recession were mostly in the middle class. and that they have replaced them with a surge of lower wage jobs. they have only really made up a fraction of recovery. 50% of the growth has been these jobs. if you add them up, you are looking at 43% of net employment growth, food services, retail, employment services, 1.7 million jobs. if you look at the largest in these fields over the last 10 years, there is 47.2% more than there were back in 2002. 25% more customer...