SHAFAQNA (International Shia News Association) New survey data show unemployment, near-poverty, or reliance on welfare is a problem for 80 percent of American adults for at least parts of their lives.Data exclusive to the Associated Press indicate that a growing gap between rich and poor in the US and lack of well-paid manufacturing jobs are two of the reasons why a majority of American adults are having hard times during their lives.
I think it's going to get worse, said 52-year-old Irene Salyers, a resident of Buchanan County in Virginia.
If you do try to go apply for a job, they're not hiring people, and they're not paying that much to even go to work, Salyers added as she warned that American children have nothing better to do than to get on drugs.
The AP data showed that while racial and ethnic minorities are still more likely to live in poverty, the number of poor whites has grown significantly since the 1970s.
With 46.2 million Americans, that constitute 15 percent of the US population, living below the line of poverty, over 19 million whites, or 41 percent of the nations destitute, are poor.
Moreover, the data showed that if the current trend of growing income inequality continues in the US, by 2030, nearly 85 percent of American adults will experience economic insecurity during periods of their lives.
Economic insecurity for adults is defined as experiencing unemployment during their working age and relying for a year or more on government aid like food stamps.
The AP data also showed that the number of poor working-class whites in the US has increased faster than that of working-class nonwhites since 2000.
By Shafaqna
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