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Database. U.S. unemployment in 2012  In the wake of the Great
Recession, millions of middle-class jobs have been lost.  Some
have fallen victim to downsizing and consolidation while others
have disappeared through outsourcing to China and other
countries.  But an increasing number of jobs - both here in the
U.S. and in other developed countries - have been gobbled up by
technology. Experts say millions more will be lost in the coming
years as technology reaches deeper into our lives.  Year after
year, the software that runs computers and an array of other
machines and devices has become more sophisticated and powerful
and capable of doing more efficiently tasks that humans have
always done.  "Microprocessors are being used everywhere ... the
entire job market is affected," said Edward Leamer, a professor
of economics at UCLA and director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast.
"We're expecting to see unemployment rates stay persistently
high."  Consider t