Future Jobs-O-Matic

Home health care aides top the list of the fastest-growing careers in the U.S. with an expected 69 percent increase by 2020. Physical therapy and veterinary techs not far behind.

Postal service workers top list of shrinking careers, followed by careers easily replaced by technology and the Internet.

Waiters, bartenders and other service industry careers top the list for lowest paid, but the work is fairly easy to get if you need it.

Looking to climb to the top of the economic food chain? Then consider a future in one of these top-paid careers.

Among growing trends online are hyper-local news websites where volunteers post updated news and events with their community. Meanwhile, qualified and paid journalists are losing their jobs. Is this the future of journalism? Adriene Hill reports.

If you're in a job that might be scarce down the road, you need to be prepared. Reporter Adriene Hill talks with Tess Vigeland about which job fields are expected to grow, which may be squeezed out for good and how to be ready for the job market of the future.

In our latest story in our series about jobs in the future, Adriene Hill reports on biomedical engineering, and how it marks the intersection of the needs of baby boomers and technological advances.

For some economists, less working hours may be just the thing to lower the unemployment rate. Marketplace's Adriene Hill weighs the pros and cons of this idea.

Once babies learn how to walk and talk, they've got a whole slew of skills they'll have to learn to stay competitive in the future job market.

Some of us may think we're part of the "middle class" but what exactly does that mean? Find out what it takes to fall into that group and learn why other may be barely clinging to the status.