FOR EIGHT YEARS BARACK OBAMA AND HIS HAREM OF
CORRUPT DEM POLS HAS SABOTAGED OUR BORDERS
TO EASE TENS OF MILLIONS OF ILLEGALS INTO OUR
JOBS, WELFARE OFFICES AND VOTING BOOTHS.
What is left for Legals is only the tax bills for La Raza's looting!
"The new reports show that in addition to “traditional” coping strategies of skipping meals and eating cheap food, these teens and pre-teens are increasingly forced into shoplifting, stealing, selling drugs, joining a gang, or selling their bodies for money in a struggle to eat properly."
Hunger and the social catastrophe facing America’s youth
13 September 2016
Two reports released this week cast a sharp light on the social catastrophe in the United States and its impact on America’s youth.
“Impossible Choices: Teens and Food Insecurity in America” (Urban Institute) and “Bringing Teens to the Table: A Focus on Food Insecurity in America” (Feeding America), both based on joint research conducted by the two organizations, detail the widespread hunger and the catastrophic choices young people are making in an effort to feed themselves, their families and their friends.
In 2015, 12.7 percent of US households were
food insecure, meaning they had difficulty at
some time during the year providing enough
food for all their members due to a lack of
resources. Among these 40 million people
struggling to have enough to eat in America
are an estimated 6.8 million young people
ages 10 to 17, including 2.9 million who have
very low food security, according to one food
insecurity expert.
The new reports show that in addition to “traditional” coping strategies of skipping meals and eating cheap food, these teens and pre-teens are increasingly forced into shoplifting, stealing, selling drugs, joining a gang, or selling their bodies for money in a struggle to eat properly.
Researchers conducting the study spoke to teenagers in 10 focus groups in low-income communities throughout the country over the course of three years. The young people researchers spoke to—of varying races and backgrounds—live in communities where jobs are scarce, and those jobs available pay low wages, offer inadequate hours, or require skills that the teens’ parents do not have.
Due to decades of cuts in social programs and the lingering impact of the Great Recession, many parents struggling to feed their families begin running out of food by the middle of the month. Under these circumstances, teenagers, especially those with younger siblings, feel a responsibility to help out. “I will go without a meal if that’s the case,” a teenager interviewed in Chicago said. “As long as my two [younger] siblings [are] good, that’s all that really matters.”
Many of these families face a perfect storm of food insecurity. Grocery stores selling affordable, nutritious food are scarce, and the cost and time of traveling to better stores is prohibitive. Teens must often settle for food at local fast-food restaurants, drug stores, gas stations and convenience stores. “When you’re broke, you get the dollar menu,” said a boy from San Diego.
Some food insecure teenagers look for work in order to contribute to the family food budget, but find they must compete with adults for a limited number of low-skill, low-paying jobs at fast-food restaurants or in retail. It is when these possibilities do not pan out that some teenagers turn in desperation to make money “outside of the legal economy,” according to the researchers.
Food-insecure teenage boys interviewed reported stealing and selling drugs as one strategy for earning money to pay for food and other necessities, subjecting them and others to personal and legal risks. “Drugs, alcohol, everything,” said a teenage girl in rural Oregon. “Bad things people used to just do in high school has spread to the junior high and down to the elementary school.”
Food insecure teens, and girls in particular, are vulnerable to another type of insidious risk: sexual exploitation. Teens in all of the study’s locations spoke of girls having sex for money to pay for food and other needs.
This often takes the form of “transactional dating,” in which the teen regularly sees and has sex with someone, usually an older man, in exchange for food, meals, cash or other material goods. “It’s really like selling yourself,” said a teenage girl in Portland, Oregon. “You’ll do whatever you need to do to get money or eat.”
A smaller number of teens resort to the strategy of purposefully getting arrested to ensure continued access to food—in prison.
Drug dealing, stealing, voluntary incarceration, sexual exploitation—these are the “choices” significant numbers of teenagers in America are undertaking out of the material need to put food on the table for themselves and their families. This tragic reality for the generation born in the new century speaks volumes about the violent and socially unequal state of class relations in America in 2016.
In a rational world one would expect banner headlines and a national debate on strategies to combat hunger among young people. But in the current political climate, dominated by the election contest of the two big business parties, it has received scant attention. There is no mention of this crisis by the Clinton and Trump camps, where the social catastrophe confronting the working class in 21st century America is routinely ignored. Nor is there particular concern for horrific circumstances poor girls are forced into from the upper middle class practitioners of identity politics around the Democratic Party.
Indeed, the catastrophic state of social life in
the United States—of which the two reports
published this week are only a partial
snapshot—is the outcome of decades of social
counter-revolution carried out by both big
business parties. The Clintons bear particular
responsibility, as it was the administration of
Bill Clinton that gutted the welfare system in
the US and ensured a vast increase in poverty
and hunger as a consequence.
the United States—of which the two reports
published this week are only a partial
snapshot—is the outcome of decades of social
counter-revolution carried out by both big
business parties. The Clintons bear particular
responsibility, as it was the administration of
Bill Clinton that gutted the welfare system in
the US and ensured a vast increase in poverty
and hunger as a consequence.
As for Obama—who has repeatedly
proclaimed that life is “pretty darn great” in
America—his administration has overseen
$8.6 billion in cuts to the Supplemental
Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), the
food stamp program. A report earlier this
'
year predicted that 1 million people across the US could lose their benefits in 2016 due to the work requirements for SNAP included as part of the Clinton administration’s welfare “reform.”
proclaimed that life is “pretty darn great” in
America—his administration has overseen
$8.6 billion in cuts to the Supplemental
Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), the
food stamp program. A report earlier this
'
year predicted that 1 million people across the US could lose their benefits in 2016 due to the work requirements for SNAP included as part of the Clinton administration’s welfare “reform.”
Working families are told that there is “no money” to extend food assistance. Rather these and other social programs must be slashed to fund the Pentagon’s war budget, as the US government-military apparatus prepares new wars. Whatever individual occupies the White House following next January, he or she will be dedicated to imposing even deeper social cuts and austerity.
A society should be measured by the health and welfare of its most vulnerable citizens, particularly the young. Children and teenagers in a just society should be nurtured by having nutritious food in adequate supply, a decent roof over their heads, quality education, and the opportunities to explore the arts, sports and other interests as they prepare for their place in the workforce. These are inalienable social rights that should be guaranteed.
While the media and the political establishment choose to ignore this latest study on food insecurity and the suffering and perils it poses to American teenagers, workers and young people need to recognize it as a particularly noxious sign of the outmoded and barbaric capitalist profit system.
Kate Randall
Wage crisis for youth in US labor market
By Kathleen Martin
14 September 2016
A report released in July 2016 by Indeed Hiring Lab, “The State of Opportunity: Overcoming the wage crisis in today’s labor market,” reveals the terrible situation facing young workers looking for jobs in the US. It is a far cry from the proclamation of the Obama administration that everything is “pretty darn great” and that now is the “best time to be alive.” Only 16 percent of jobs available in the US labor market today are beating what is termed as the “wage crisis.”
The report states, “Today, many people feel that the labor
market is polarizing, with high-paying opportunities going to
a select few, middle-wage jobs disappearing, and low-wage
jobs proliferating.”
It appears that these feelings correspond to a real stagnation and overall decline in wages and opportunity for the majority of people searching for employment.
First, the report defines (economic) “opportunity” for job-seekers as “the ability to comfortably support themselves and their families,” meaning a job that not only pays a living wage, but also keeps up with the ever-rising cost of living. It analyzed 2014 data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, which has jobs broken down into 800 categories. Each category is then characterized according to two factors: “high pay,” or a salary of $57,700 or more; and “purchasing power,” meaning an “opportunity job” that has shown salary growth in the last decade, even after adjustment for inflation.
The report states, “After applying those two salary filters, we found that only 170 occupations out of a total of 800 met the criteria of a stagnation-defying opportunity job. That amounts to a mere 16 percent of 2014 total employment…”
Of these opportunity jobs, 92 percent are concentrated in the following five categories: health care practitioners and technical; management; computer and mathematical; business and financial operations; and architecture and engineering.
Over the course of an entire decade, the proportion of opportunity jobs has increased only from 13 percent in 2004 to 16 percent in 2014. The report goes on to state: “[S]uch gains are modest. This is an average measure, and while there are certainly exceptions, the results suggest the global wage crisis will likely continue throughout 2016 and beyond.”
The report itself declares that the “economic crisis is over,” but the figures themselves suggest something different. Every statistic shows poverty-level and stagnating wages for the vast majority of job openings. At the same time, nearly half of the extremely scarce opportunity jobs are concentrated in only 10 states.
As for the remaining 84 percent of jobs in the US labor market, further examination proves that most do not come close to meeting the overall modest standards of the opportunity jobs. They do not offer a sustainable wage to begin with, nor do they beat inflation and the rising cost of living. Another striking difference between the two categories is that the opportunity jobs are at a much lower risk of automation than the non-opportunity jobs—8.8 percent for the former, compared to 45.7 percent for the latter.
The greatest common factor underlying each category of opportunity jobs is the education needed in order to attain such a position. According to the report, “Our analysis of opportunity jobs quickly revealed the crucial importance of education. A look at job advertisements showed 75 percent of opportunity job postings are in categories typically requiring a college education, compared with 14 percent of ‘other’ job postings.”
Obtaining a college degree or certificate has become more important than ever, in fact nearly indispensable, to compete in today’s job market—or what should be called the race to the bottom. However, the report also indicates what most young people know all too well to be true: “Even so, a degree alone does not guarantee membership in the fortunate minority at the top of the polarized labor market. Far from it … [I]t is feasible to emerge from college with a degree and find a job that will lock you into a career with underperforming wages. Gone are the days when a college degree could guarantee financial security.”
The number-one job listing for people entering the workforce with a college degree is particularly revealing: miscellaneous sales representatives and services. These kinds of jobs do not provide health care, pensions, livable wages or even job security. A few listed among the top 10 job openings include clinical and school counseling; social and human service assistants; and insurance sales agents. Each job falls short, anywhere from $5,000 to $30,000 per year, of the $57,700 annual salary needed to keep up in today’s economy.
These numbers fly directly in the face of the assertion that there has been some sort of recovery from the crash and recession. Paired with crippling student loan debt, now at an average of $26,600 per student, the likelihood that a young member of the working class will be able to purchase a home, save for retirement, or even simply dig themselves out of debt, is very slim.
THE OBAMA SOLUTION TO END
WHITE
CHRISTIAN AMERICA:
DRUG ADDICTION!!!
MEXICO: AMERICA’S DRUG
DEALER!
The
same period has seen a massive growth of social inequality, with income and
wealth concentrated at the very top of American society to an extent not seen
since the 1920s.
“This study follows reports released over the past several months
documenting rising mortality rates among US workers due to drug addiction and
suicide, high rates of infant mortality, an overall leveling off of life
expectancy, and a growing gap between the life expectancy of the bottom rung of
income earners compared to those at the top.”
AMERICA’S FINAL DAYS: The Global Looting of Bill & Hillary
Clinton – unconvicted.
When asked to compare Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump, D'Souza
said no contest. "She is basically Obama plus gangsterism. The
Clintons are like Bonnie and Clyde. Their goal is to steal America.
In Hillary's America, D'Souza
documents how Democrats transitioned from pro-slavery to pro-enslavement; the
longstanding Democratic political war against women; how Hillary Clinton's
political mentor was, literally, a cold-blooded gangster, Saul Alinsky; how the
Clintons and other Democrats see foreign policy not in terms of national
interest, but in terms of personal profit; and how Democratic-controlled cities
have turned into hotbeds of crime and corruption. American Thinker
interviewed him about his latest projects
HILLARY CLINTON: Closet Republican
and Openly a LA RAZA SUPREMACIST agent for Mexico!
"The same period has seen a massive growth of social
inequality, with income and wealth concentrated at the very top of American
society to an extent not seen since the 1920s."
"He
(Trump) is able to get a hearing because millions of people are being
driven into economic insecurity and poverty while the rich and
the super-rich continue to amass obscene levels
of wealth. He is able with some success to divert mass discontent
along reactionary nationalist and racialist channels precisely
because what passes for the “left” in American politics,
anchor by the Democratic
Party, has moved ever further to the right, culminating in the
Obama administration which has presided over endless war and
an unprecedented redistribution of wealth from the bottom to the
top of the economic ladder."
A NATION IN BORDER MELTDOWN: MILLIONS OF JOBS TO ILLEGALS
AND BILLIONS IN WELFARE
MEXICO WILL DOUBLE AMERICA’S POPULATION
IMMIGRANT SHARE OF ADULTS QUADRUPLED IN 232
COUNTIES
"More than
728,000 illegal immigrants have been shielded from being deported
and
granted work
permits through President Barack Obama’s 2012 executive amnesty
program, according
to the Migration Policy Institute."
A Hillary victory means there won’t be a departure; merely a
doubling-down by the elite, as they act with renewed zest to secure their
interests -- versus the national welfare. The Great Imposition -- a war waged
on average Americans -- will continue with awful consequences. J. ROBERT
SMITH - THE AMERICAN THINKER.COM
“Forget the arrogance and
corruption -- $153 million in Clinton family speaking fees from 2001, mainly
bribes during her State Department years. Forget the lies, the lies about lies,
and the perjury. Forget the security breaches. Forget enabling America’s most
prominent sexual predator. Forget the trail of bodies stretching from Little
Rock to Benghazi. Forget every scandal from Whitewater to deleted e-mails.
Forget all of it.”
OBAMA-CLINTONOMICS:
You were wondering how many jobs went to illegals and how well Obama’s crony banksters have done???
You were wondering how many jobs went to illegals and how well Obama’s crony banksters have done???
The sputtering economic recovering under President Obama, the last
to follow a major recession, has fallen way short of the average recovery and
ranks as the worst since the 1930s Great Depression, according to a new report.
Had the recovery under Obama been the average of the 11 since the
Depression, according to the report, family incomes would be $17,000 higher,
six million fewer Americans would be in poverty, and there would be six million
more jobs.
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