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

[Young_Chitlin]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/...ates_n_3666594.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

 

[cobbland]

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.

Was hip-hop to blame or Reaganomics?

 

[taeboo]

This doesn't surprise me, hell Walmart and Kelly Services are the nation's 2 largest employers right now...

 

[texas409]

i can believe this

 

[ThaNubianGod]

I run my own business so i don't give a shit about you broke niggas. If no one is giving you a job, go out and create one.

I swear you guys can conspire and expose an internet poster's nudes like you're Ocean's Eleven, so use that same brain to create a venture.

 

[Ajackson17]

Truth, so can those dummies come and defend this reasoning. Oh, they must be lazy as hell. They must have had bad grades in school, durr durr dumm dumm durr.

 

[lighthearted26]

This is what i don't understand. Unemployment is so high yet every job has a 30 page assessment on the application. Why make it so hard for people to get menial jobs when you know they need it? And i use to think the assessments weren't that important but apparently they are. They can make or break u as far as getting the job. Walmart's is so stupid i can't even begin to tell u.

 

[kzzl]

Faced both situations in the past, so article ain't surprising. Be like that sometimes.

 

[bambu]

This is what i don't understand. Unemployment is so high yet every job has a 30 page assessment on the application. Why make it so hard for people to get menial jobs when you know they need it? And i use to think the assessments weren't that important but apparently they are. They can make or break u as far as getting the job. Walmart's is so stupid i can't even begin to tell u.

This shit is intentional.............

They also say that people are not qualified for high-tech jobs, yet everyone has to be trained for their specific role, regardless of qualifications or background..................

That MBTI shit is a joke.........

 

[DarthRozay]

I run my own business so i don't give a shit about you broke niggas. If no one is giving you a job, go out and create one.

I swear you guys can conspire and expose an internet poster's nudes like you're Ocean's Eleven, so use that same brain to create a venture.

You should give a shit though. If your customers have no form of income they stop coming to whatever your business is.

It's all a chain.

 

[jono]

Most people are a paycheck away from poverty anyway. "Middle class" people found that out the hard way, skip a check or two and you'll likely be on unemployment, welfare and anything else the govt gives away.

 

[Zigefresh]

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.

 

[jay83]

Go to college they said, get good grades they said, get good test scores they said...............

Lol

 

[kzzl]

Another thing is how many of these corporations keep sending jobs over seas. Corporate greed and being able to dodge labor laws. With the population for bodies and plenty of land, it's baffling that America isn't more self sufficient. There's too much shit being made in china and other places that could be made here. Creating way more work opportunities.

 

[Zigefresh]

Go to college they said, get good grades they said, get good test scores they said...............

Lol

It's all about luck and a shitload of ass kissing nowadays to get the job you want.

 

[jay83]

Another thing is how many of these corporations keep sending jobs over seas. Corporate greed and being able to dodge labor laws. With the population for bodies and plenty of land, it's baffling that America isn't more self sufficient. There's too much shit being made in china and other places that could be made here. Creating way more work opportunities.

I even read that china is making tons of money off of kimchi. Which is koreas food. But japan is buying kimchi from china cause its cheaper.

 

[Chef_Taylor]

80% is a high number...I wouldnt say im poor but what do they consider poor?

 

[Chef_Taylor]

Most people are a paycheck away from poverty anyway. "Middle class" people found that out the hard way, skip a check or two and you'll likely be on unemployment, welfare and anything else the govt gives away.

2 bd room apartment rent $1,125 after all bills paid prolly see anywhere from $6-700 left to spend/save... is that middle class?All this poor, middle class, rich classifications confused me..ill just say im making it because im damn sure not rich.

 

[Zigefresh]

80% is a high number...I wouldnt say im poor but what do they consider poor?

Below 30k.

 

[Chef_Taylor]

So 80% of americans make right at or under 30k a year.