Good economic reporting, with person-on-the-street interviews and hard economic data.

The strengths of this story lie in: 1. the lack of any value judgment about service sector vs. manufacturing sector jobs, and 2. the fact that the author limits the scope of the piece to a discussion of new service jobs added this year (and increased GDP) without going into any speculation about the implications for the economy of possible labor shortages. These are also the article's weaknesses - depending on one's point of view.

Good evidence, but sources are undeclared in a few places.

There's nothing really wrong with the article but it is quite forgettable. It treats all workers as pretty much interchangeable units of labor and does not really get into differences between them by education, age, region, etc.