So I’ve been reading articles from this Time magazine and it makes me feel pretty grim about the future. I think I prefer to be left in the dark most of the time about things like this because I just want to believe that things really aren’t as bad as they truly are. So here are some depressing facts for you. I think I’ll just subconsciously block them from my mind and continue on with my life:
- “There are more poor people in America than at any other time in the 52 years records have been kept on poverty.” More than 15% of America is below the poverty line.
- Unemployment is high from the recession, but in reality poverty was increasing before things got this bad. It’s a result of globalization and jobs going overseas.
- Even those who aren’t considered to be below the poverty line, struggle more today than ever before. The American Dream is partially about upward mobility and ending up better off than where your parents were. “Even before the current crisis Americans were finding it harder to increase their socio-economic status compared their peers in other countries.”
- “The average real weekly earnings of a typical blue collar workers are lower today than 1964.”
