The Millennial Generation and the Families

It is hard when you are a middle class family, and eventually a good life passes to be a low income family. Not just a Paycheck from Unnatural Causes describes how unemployment, and change on class & income can transform people 's health. The film presents how a middle white family started seen discrepancies among being working class and the rich. In fact, they start to understand what mean being unemployment. Basically, the film briefly explains the reasons why companies have to move to different places not matter the wellbeing of their workers. Thus, what really matter in this industrialized world is profit, and that 's what company holders are seeking at cost of anything. Clearly, companies do not care what is going to be the life of an unemployment because chair holders never have to experience it generally. In reality, the closure of companies directly constitute to a negative impact on the rate of jobs and the stress level on the people who lose their jobs which is connected to the health of the US.

The journal article begins by introducing an African American couple who resided in Russellville, Kentucky. James Wright held an occupation as a corn cutter while his wife Gladys worked as a cook in a white home. The time span of their journey occurred at the beginning of the great depression all the way through World War II. Seeking better employment opportunities, James traveled to Louisville. Although, his first couple trips were in vain. His resilience and determination eventually lead to a job working for International Harvester. During an era of many trials and tribulations, James found a way to support himself and his family by migrating from a rural to an urban area. By sharing this anecdote the author establishes a mood of hardship

Together, they made around $83,000 and had around $90,000 in assets which placed them solidly in the middle class. Twelve years later, Allison and David experienced setbacks but increased their income to about $125,000. Their financial assets quadrupled to a whopping $368,000 and saved up thousands of dollars for retirement. However, with the economy downsizing on the heels of the Great Recession and uneven job recovery heavily tilted toward low-wage jobs, David joined millions of other Americans in unemployment. Having spent half a year unemployed, David returned to work working at a significantly lower wage. Over the course of 12 years, David witnessed how work became less stable and more contingent for many Americans. The working experience illustrates a larger transformation in America’s employment landscape, away from middle-class jobs and jobs with significant benefits toward low-paying jobs with few benefits, accelerated by the Great Recession.

Everyone in the world wants and needs to make money one way or the other. People in the world say that money is not everything. Money does not equal successs. Money does not It give back themselves an oppurtunity to feed themselves, or enjoy the luxuries that America has to offer. When reading Wilson's Article, “When work disappears” According to the trading economies in the United States of America, the US unemployment rate was recorded at 4.9 percent in August of 2016, which not been changed two months prior. 7.8 million people in the United States are without jobs. Making it hard for an Average American to live comfortable. William Julius Wilson’s article “When Work Disappears” discusses the disappearance of work in the industrialized

He describes the white flight from the inner cities to the suburbs, leaving neighborhoods with high concentrations of poor minorities behind. The Missing Class examines a similar theme of gentrification of neighborhoods, illuminated by the example of the Floyd family in the Clinton Hill neighborhood in north central Brooklyn. “Once in decline, the neighborhood is now on the upswing . . . various factories have shut their doors, the affordable housing has disappeared, and upscale apartments have sprouted.” (Newman & Chen, pg. 12). The Floyds lost their one financial asset, their home, when they were swindled by a contractor who promised to fix up the house, and allow them to pay their loan off over time. The Floyds lament about the influx of affluent white Yuppies in their neighborhood, a place where they know everyone and have lived for the past twenty years, wondering what it will mean for the neighborhood’s identity, wondering if it will still be a black neighborhood. According to another neighbor, despite the rising prices, most black residents won’t sell their homes. “Their family roots are in the South, where property carries with it both tradition and responsibility” (pg. 15). Clearly, the loss of a house or a neighborhood could deeply affect a person’s sense of self and a sense of pride, leaving someone grasping for their once stable identity.

As these large companies downsize and close they push hundreds of people out of jobs. This forces middle class to live below the standards they had been so accustomed to, this is a term not many are familiar with called downward mobility. This was outlined by Katherine Newman as she wrote about David Patterson who had a very stable career in the computer industry and one day lost it and was unable to find work. This forced the family to move from their “nice” neighborhood to an apartment. “Broke and distressed beyond imagining, the family found a small apartment in a modest section of a nearby town.” (Newman) This being the light side of what happens to those forced out of work unable to find a new job. Jo Goodwin Parker shares her life story, the ultimate low, poverty. “Poverty means insects in your food, in your nose, in your eyes, and crawling over you when you sleep.” (Parker)

In Bob Herbert essay “Hiding from Reality” he explains that America will never get back to the way it was once due to the economy being in ruins. When the Great Recession took place the economy was failing which caused millions of people to lose their jobs and according to Herbert, it will most likely “take many years, perhaps a decade or more, to get employment back to the level at which one could fairly say the economy is thriving” (Herbert). Therefore, people will do anything to get a job in order to provide for their family even if it doesn't pay well causing a person to have a second job. There is still a fear of being laid off as there is not enough money to pay for workers and with the rise of technology the need for workers is decreasing as machines are taking away jobs. Consequently, families are put on the spot to find any means to survive and provide the best for the children, but how can they when workers are continually getting laid off. The nation is digging into a deeper hole; therefore, “America will never get its act together until we recognize how much trouble we’re

In his discussion on poverty among African Americans, William Wilson has identified several historical factors that have contributed to the increase in poverty levels in the recent years. Such factors included, first, shift in the American economy from industrial to informational economy, thus limited the labor poll to only highly specialized individuals; second, the historical flow of migrants, and what it bring with it from competition over limited amount of resources; third, change in the urban minority age structure, where individuals who are underage are the majority in both Hispanic and African American poor communities, Fourth, population change in the inner city; and finally, the class transformation of inner city, where middle class African Americans, have left the inner city and moved towards other middle class neighborhoods, thus, leaving behind a concentration of poor and underclass African Americans in inner cities all across the United States.

Today American citizens undeniably face some of the nation’s greatest challenges. No matter the issue, there will be consequences as a result. A great issue as voted by most Americans is believed to be the high percentage rate of unemployment. Unemployment is a distressingly bad aspect, and unfortunately it is a daily normality and struggle for most individuals. There are a plethora of reasons why unemployment is intensively high; frictional, structural and voluntary unemployment for example, serve as major purposes to the leading cause of high unemployment. Frictional unemployment occurs from the amount of time spent in finding new employment in the free market. For example, a recent university graduate may not necessarily expect to find a job of their expertise and skills right away therefore the job hunt continues. This also occurs whereas people choose to be unemployed rather than accepting the first job that comes around or are in between jobs because they have become inessential or simply looking for a better, beneficial career. Structural unemployment occurs due to inconsistent labor skills such as occupational immobility where learning a new skill required for a certain occupation is complicated. For example an unemployed mechanic will struggle to find an occupation in the medical industry because of the difference in occupational knowledge. Geographical immobility

The United States of America is generally regarded as the country where dreams come true--where financial trouble is a mere horror story, and every family is happy and complete with two point five children and a white picket fence. This, however, is not so commonly the case. Those people of the middle class especially know this, and the Neumanns and the Stanleys are no exception. As time went on, it became more and more difficult to feel secure in the permanence of their homes and their jobs, and in the future of their children. Their stories as told in the ninety minute feature would go on to raise questions about the changing and possibly declining economy of the United States, and the fate of a wavering middle class.

But even the strongest economies struggle sometimes. It is because of this economic rollercoaster our country has been experiencing for the past decade that this beautiful, iridescent, silver Dream of ours has taken on a bit of tarnish .Our current generation faces mass unemployment, the levels of which have not been seen in decades, our generation of young adults faces record levels of employability as well as overwhelming college debt.

In the postwar era, America’s economy flourished. However, this significant economic boom didn’t give hope to everyone. In fact, all of the benefits mainly went to whites.The rise of the suburbs led to a mass exodus of middle class white people from inner cities to the suburbs, leaving

The ethnic group affected most by this structural shift in job market is African Americans and played a significant part in the continuation of their high poverty levels. The Great Migration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries led to millions of Blacks moving North hoping for a better life and escaping the cruel post-Civil war and Jim Crow environment in the South. As Massey writes, this led to the formation of the black “Ghetto”: highly concentrated black neighborhoods in many Northern cities. Whilst today the Ghetto holds a negative connotation for some, it is important to note that Black intellectuals like Booker T. Washington were actually in favor of creating such ghettos early on. In their minds, the creation of independent, self-sustaining black neighborhoods would lead to economic sustenance, a vibrant African-American culture a.k.a. “Harlem Renaissance”,

This book takes place primarily in the South and West coasts of the United States (as well as central U.S.), but also includes a few excerpts from people who had lived in New York as well as several other places affected by the economic downfall.

Most people have a learning style that mirrors how they were taught when they were younger. It should be noted that there is not a one size fits all method when it comes to learning. The key to being able to appeal to each of the different generations is to offer diversity in teaching styles in order to satisfy the different preferences. As of now, there are four generations that are in the workforce and those four generations are: The Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, Generation X, and the Millennials. This paper will examine the characteristics of these four generations, how their learning styles differ, and what to