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To make matters worse, childcare workers make an average of $30,370 a year, placing them in the bottom 2% of occupations.

The researchers prompted four AI image generators for modern, portrait-style photographs of chemists in industry or academic occupations.

Experts generally agree that the occupations held by middle-class earners center on salaried office professions like K-12 teachers and human resources specialists or high-skill technical labor.

Fourteen of their interview subjects, representing a range of ages, occupations and religions, are represented in the play.

Many in the food service industry – one of the most popular occupations in any economy – could find themselves unable to learn new skills for a different job.