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Source: Associated Press
Four out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near-poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives, a sign of deteriorating economic security and an elusive American dream.
Survey data exclusive to The Associated Press points to an increasingly globalized U.S. economy, the widening gap between rich and poor, and the loss of good-paying manufacturing jobs as reasons for the trend.
... Hardship is particularly growing among whites, based on several measures. Pessimism among that racial group about their families' economic futures has climbed to the highest point since at least 1987. In the most recent AP-GfK poll, 63 percent of whites called the economy "poor."
... While racial and ethnic minorities are more likely to live in poverty, race disparities in the poverty rate have narrowed substantially since the 1970s, census data show. Economic insecurity among whites also is more pervasive than is shown in the government's poverty data, engulfing more than 76 percent of white adults by the time they turn 60, according to a new economic gauge being published next year by the Oxford University Press.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/Exclusive-4-in-5-in-US-face-near-poverty-no-work-4691668.php
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)How many of these people go to church and vote what their church tells them to do. Value their gun over their job. How many blame Obama and Democrats? And how many of them will believe the meme that the Democrats still continue to hold them down. How many are libertarians? And how many are anti regulation, anti labor and anti union?
With such numbers you would think that Democrats could win.
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)us are completely addicted. Building your life around wishful thinking makes you completely vulnerable to all manner of charlatan.
& R