Our white-collar professionals are beginning to understand it, as their jobs start disappearing also.

An unsettling flight of white-collar professionals, known here as the brain drain, is expected.

For the past half-decade, the most wired people have been white-collar professionals sitting at desks.

Many mining workers nowadays need education levels and skills more common to urban white-collar professionals.

"In fact, this proves that unions are a solution for white-collar professionals."

Of course, white-collar professionals like bankers and lawyers, who once considered themselves immune to recessions, have also lost jobs.

While many tend to be students, there are a number of white-collar professionals employed in various jobs.

Siemens and a few other companies have offered to pay some white-collar professionals to take sabbaticals of six months to a year.

Current and former mayors of the state's biggest cities are almost all white-collar professionals.

So many Americans had been getting college degrees that the relative wages of white-collar professionals had started to fall.