Particularly vulnerable groups were the old, who had no means of acquiring money. The young, were dependant on their parents’ financial status and good will, if they were not orphans. Seasonal workers were vulnerable due to the cyclical nature of their employment. Anyone who suffered from illness either long or short term fell into poverty because there were no sickness benefits. Women were another vulnerable group because they were always paid at a lower rate than men.
Due to the lack of social mobility, up the economic ladder, America is no longer the land of opportunity. The first reason why America is no longer the land of opportunity is that the lack of jobs in this country. America is no longer the industrial power it once was and as a result there is no longer a need for employees as there once was there for there is no need for workers. If there are no jobs for people to have in the first place then there is no promotions or any other sort of moving up financially and in wealth. Someone may say that there is still a good number of jobs in America for incoming employees; however this is false because students coming out of college in America can’t find jobs because of this lack of jobs.
For example sick leave, annual leave, superannuation for retirement and pay for overtime. Without sick leave if someone was to fall sick they wouldn’t receive any pay and could possibly lose their job. No annual leave meant that if someone was to go on holiday they wouldn’t receive any pay, so as a result not many people took holidays as they relied on their income. Even though the living conditions for the working class families were better than that of other countries it was still quite poor. The conditions of the houses were very poor; they were mostly made out of cheap materials, were very small and packed closely together.
It was that we can't afford to have a work stoppage every three years." Albaugh. Which all goes back to cost as the wages were not costing as much as the work stoppage. Mainly because of delivery deadlines not being met. Due to the stoppage of factory lines because of union
Statistics shows that the cause of homelessness is because the lack of jobs. Others say that it is due to lack of housing. Several people are homeless even though they have a job. This happens because a lot of people work but they don’t make enough money to get above what is called the poverty line. Today’s estimate of fifty percent of the homeless has a full or part time job, but still don’t make enough money to pay their bills.
Think about issues that are affecting individuals, identified groups of young people and young people across the community. Concerns young people have: One of the concerns the young people have is the lack of job opportunities. They feel that once they come out of education the amount of jobs available are very limited. They feel that even though they go to college and university there are usually no jobs in the fields that they are qualified in, and are left unemployed.
America's will never be able to move forward without jobs. Without good paying jobs Americans are losing their homes, losing cars, having no food, and no utilities. Some Americans are having to get one or more part-time jobs just to
8% unemployed (as of September). Unemployed citizens fall into four different categories; cyclical, structural, frictional, and out of the work force. People who are out of the work force aren’t recorded for average income as they have left the labor force, and are not looking for employment anymore. However the main problem is people who unfortunately are accounted as cyclically unemployed. Cyclical unemployment occurs during a recession, as we have recently encountered.
Either they’re not poor enough, they’re not poor in the right way ‘ or they need the money for the wrong reasons. The reading in the book Keeping Woman and Children Last, showed time and time again the shocking stories of how people fall into poverty after living a middle class life for decades. Reasons pertaining to illness, death, unemployment, divorce and accidents left these people with nothing and the government would refuse to help them. These people are called the “New Poor”(Sidel, 1998, p.60). Their social security and pensions are not enough for them to live on so they must rely on these funds
Without an education life is much more difficult. Their are barley any jobs available for people without degrees in college or even their High school graduation certificate. Living off of minimum wage is almost impossible to do. But you can’t get a job that pays better then minimum wage with no degrees in school. This problem is all started from one thing, which is dropping out ; the biggest mistake anyone can make because it doesn’t make anything much easier.