The Inadequacy Of Job In The US

The unemployment rate has dramatically increased over the last several months. This increase has created many complications for the American people. Although the United States economy has created over 7 million jobs, there is still a long way to go until the economy is back on track.

Poverty and downward mobility are unfortunately not the only problems striking the American working class. It is fact that some jobs are simply not needed anymore. That of the laborer is just depleting. Some might even call it a “dying breed” (LaFevre 1) Mike LaFevre is part of the working class that labors day in and

I believe it is harder for youth in America to find work because of the thirty to fourty years olds are filling the less meaningful jobs like fast food or gerocery stores as a permanent job. This is no allowing the younger generation to work these jobs while in hogh school or even college. also believe that a large percentage of todays youth lack a strong work ethic and and want something for free. “Millennials are the worst generation. They’re lazy, unmotivated, disconnected and they want a trophy for every little thing they do.” Labor Force Participation Rate is defiend as “the percentage of the population that is either employed or unemployed that is, either working or actively seeking work. People with jobs are employed or People who are jobless, looking for a job, and available for work are unemployed. The labor force is made up of the employed and the unemployed. People who are neither employed nor unemployed are not in the labor force.”

The inequality between the employer and the employee is an enormous problem in the United States. The employer pays the employee a wage that is not livable. The Americans earning the minimum wage are forced to have themselves and their families live on a wage that is not livable. The minimum wage in itself is not enough to support a family. The cost of necessary items to live is going up, while the American worker’s wage stagnates. The necessity items that are needed to live on are getting

This widening of income inequality has damaged the economy, the middle class and ultimately the American dream. Among other things, it has negatively impacted the peoples purchasing power,

This article goes into deep detail of past events that caused the economy to be in trouble, and how this affected the American people. Over the years The United States of America has faced many hardships that affected a majority of the country. Such as The Great Depression, and the crash of 2008. One of many include the amount of jobs that have been lost due to various reasons. American´s have a hard working ethic, but the people must apply themselves. The ratio of how much someone works and the amount they get paid is not accurate. This is because of the Broken Basic Bargain, which is why the economy is the way that it is. This article stated that Americans are beginning to settle for lower paying jobs, or going without cost of living increases. The worst decade for American workers started in the year of 2001. ¨Republican governors and legislators are trying to pass so-called right-to-work laws banning employment contracts requiring employees to join a union and pay union dues,¨ claimed the article. America is in a never ending cycle at the moment due to the fact that lower incomes bean less demand for goods and services, which then means less wages in the

Claiming that the problem “plaguing” Americans is a lack of jobs rather than a low minimum wage, they display an understanding of the broader issue at hand--poverty--which further strengthens the piece by presenting a clear rationale and establishing credibility through their deeper understanding. Acknowledging the “political attractiveness” of giving people higher salaries highlights a shallowness to the reasoning behind the opposing side, as

The modern day American society hosts a broad spectrum of industries with various occupations and professions to engage today’s workforce. America, much like most first world countries is a service economy based on the exchange of knowledge and expertise rather than materials and products. People have a long history of work and work evolution that has ultimately brought America to a service economy producing both strengths and weaknesses within the society and its economy. As America has moved to a service economy, much of the manufacturing and production jobs have moved oversees to third world countries creating a reliance on other economies. This globalization of the workforce as well as unionization, and the

For this reason, living conditions for a large part of core nations is truly gratifying. The elite classes delight in a more comfortable life. Sitting in their ivory towers, they dictate to the working and lower classes. However, when affairs become too expensive for these elites, lifestyles are not a commodity they willingly surrender. Therefore, they cut back through American jobs. The obvious choice is to outsource for cheaper wages. These reductions come at the cost of employment for the American workers. Consequently, because of these cuts, American workers struggle with maintaining a household. “These understandable concerns over job losses due to services outsourcing often produce a political response that would move to restrict

One of the challenges American workforces that facing today is income inequality. The fact of income inequality is something we become increasingly aware of here in the 21st century in the United States. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, some of the perceived factors that may affect income inequality challenges are globalization, technology, race, gender and age discrimination, imbalance between population and job creations, and education that they received. These factors, drawing out the main points, and decide which factors are the most critical when it comes to determining income, or promotions of the American workforces. It rose as the issue of great concern to working families across America. In other words, for many in the workforce,

As a result, American workers are often displaced and find themselves replaced with cheap imported labor. Cheap labor fosters sub-standard wages and workers cannot support their families on depressed wages. Companies and contractors love the notion of keeping labor cheap because they’ll always try to operate on conditions that brings high profits and cost down. Others oppose that American workers simply will not work for sub-standard wages. It’s not about whether you are American or not, it’s about working for slave wages. Bob Herbert believes a rebirth of the American dream can only be achieved once our government embraces equal pay and opportunities for all by “developing a full-employment economy that provides jobs for all who want to work at pay that enables the workers and their families to enjoy a decent standard of living.”

The United States established its claim as the "land of opportunity" for multiple generations; immigrants travel to the states year after year with aspirations of improving the lives of themselves and their household. As an increasing rate of minorities continue to become drawn into America 's lower class, they begin to doubt the practicality of their dreams after all. Then there of course those who would debate that the unfortunate are impoverished due to their absence of trade/educational skill and hard work. Throughout the course of this essay, I intend to demonstrate that poverty is in fact a continuing fundamental issue in our society that is not entirely due to “lack of work ethic”. Utilizing evidence accumulated from the sources: The Sociology Project 2.0 and The Color Line, the Dilemma, and the Dream, one will realize that there are many obstacles that hamper, without entirely inhibiting, lower-class individuals from attaining the upper levels of today 's society. Therefore, the United States is unfortunately not the land of opportunity it is believed to be due to differences within social stratification, educational systems, and discriminatory labor forces.

“A record of 94,708,000 Americans are not in the labor force as of May 2016.” CNS news took this information from the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on June third 2016. This is an all time high for unemployment in the United States. The possible reason why so many Americans aren’t working could be due to the fact that the way money is distributed in America isn’t what they people think it is, and it isn’t even close to the ideal. Another reason why Americans aren’t working could be that a small portion of the U.S. owns a large portion of all the earnings, and the CEOs of companies are making a ridiculous amount more than their workers.

In “ Labor Force Insecurity and U.S. Work Attitudes..” Lalleburg discusses the soical, ecomonical, and political forces or job concerns within the United States.

Downsizing, restructuring, rightsizing, even a term as obscure as census readjustment has been used to describe the plague that has been affecting corporate America for years and has left many of its hardest working employees without work. In the year 2001 we had nearly 1.8 million jub cuts, that’s almost three times as much as the year 2000(Matthew Benz). In the 1990's, one million managers of American corporations with salaries over $40,000 also lost their jobs. In total, Fortune 500 companies have eliminated 4.4 million positions since 1979 including the 65,000 positions cut in February of 2002 (Ellen Florian). Although this downsizing of companies can have many reasons behind it and cannot be