Experts admit they are having a hard time trying to project where the economy is going. Yet it promises to be one of the key issues in this year’s Presidential election. The man who speaks for 40 million union families was in San Francisco today. He was optimistic, while sounding an alarm. ABC7’s MONEYScope reporter, David Louie, explains.

More than a million Californians are jobless. Six million Californians have no health insurance. Every day, 85,000 workers across the country hear two dreaded words from someone other than Donald Trump.

John Sweeney is the president of the AFL-CIO. His message to the Commonwealth Club centers on a critical question: Where will our children work?

John Sweeney, AFL-CIO president: “Jobs in economic sectors that are growing pay 21 percent less than jobs in industries that are vanishing.”

And the job a child aims for today might end up offshore.

Dave Coats, Livermore engineer: “It’s hard to say what the future will bring as far as how deep this outsourcing will really go.”

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