Op-Ed: 80% of All Adults in U.S. Face Near-Poverty or Unemployment

[NoCompetition]

A lot of (probably most) people just think about the short term. Keep up with the Jones, Drop everything to get with whatever female comes their way with no restraint, make babies, etc., etc. Very few actually play a winning game which takes discipline, patience, and work. Even then, you gon have your real challenges.

 

[9TRAY]

By: MAX RIVLIN-NADLER

In a sign of our part-time recovery, four out of every five American adults face joblessness or poverty at some point during their lives.

The survey, released exclusively by the Associated Press, found that America's recession has widened the gap between the rich and poor and increased hardship among whites, who report their highest levels of pessimism about the future since 1987.

Disparity in income, which used to break starkly on racial lines, has narrowed between whites and minorities as more of the middle class has been pushed into the service industry or been forced to take part-time positions.

"It's time that America comes to understand that many of the nation's biggest disparities, from education and life expectancy to poverty, are increasingly due to economic class position," William Julius Wilson, the renowned Harvard professor who specializes on race and the economy, told the AP.

Over the past decade, the study found that the largest losses in wealth have been among working class whites. Prospects for minorities, as always, are not very good, either.

That would explain why I'm Poor and Destitute

 

[can'tyoutell]

A lot of (probably most) people just think about the short term. Keep up with the Jones, Drop everything to get with whatever female comes their way with no restraint, make babies, etc., etc. Very few actually play a winning game which takes discipline, patience, and work. Even then, you gon have your real challenges.

People aren't broke because of poor decisions. People are broke because the economy tanked.

 

[So ILL]

 

[Wild Self]

Hopefully most of em are the damn baby boomers that have been keeping us youngins from getting our jobs. They been taking up space and working for too damn long. It's time for us to take over the workforce now.

They pretty much gonna croak before they let go of their jobs. America is such a joke in the 21st century with the money so tight for over 80% of the population.

 

[Ms.Scorp]

Ya'll better head overseas. People don't realize how lucrative contracting is.

 

[Shizlansky]

Nothing worst then having car problems and calling AllState for a service and getting a person from India to set it up for you.

I live America but a nigga from India with the woat accent gon call a company in America to help me with my service.

Keeping jobs here would greatly improve America. But its cheap for them to ship it out.

 

[MarcusGarvey]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/28/poverty-unemployment-rates_n_3666594.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

_Race disparities in health and education have narrowed generally since the 1960s. While residential segregation remains high, a typical black person now lives in a nonmajority black neighborhood for the first time. Previous studies have shown that wealth is a greater predictor of standardized test scores than race; the test-score gap between rich and low-income students is now nearly double the gap between blacks and whites.

Shit good read, things are getting worse, use to be economic wise when whites have the flu blacks have pneumonia, looks like shits converging