Tapsearch Com EditorWorkers dignity missing in action
September 4th 2011 23:21
Unemployment rate does not add up as the American nightmare continues with no end in sight By Ray Tapajna
The unemployment rate and related things like unemployment insurance do not compute in our times. The statistics are bad to begin with and have no base to compare with. There is certainly very few ways to compare with the past when most jobs were full time jobs with benefits. Now with our production and factories in other lands the base line for comparison is very difficult to locate.
We talk about it at The Worlds News Net / jobless reporting needs work
The value of work been degraded with impoverished workers and a new working poor class in the USA replacing the middle class production workers. Jobs that were once considered entry level jobs are now the only jobs left. Some workers need to work up to three jobs at a time to survive. Others try to start up small ventures without much capital to back up the risk. Many former white collar workers who were considered part of the professional class are not underemployed. This is something new too in our ever declining work day.
Human dignity has been thrashed and no one wants to talk or write about it.
President Bush said the Mexican workers come here to take the jobs Americans do not want. He leaves out part of the story. After, more than 4,000 U.S. factories were moved to Mexico, we find there are Mexican workers who will not take the $1 per hour jobs and rather leave their homes and hunt down jobs that pay 5 to 8 times more in the USA.
News channels ignore this part of the story and the comparisons of job values with the past. Many of our real jobs have been exported to other lands and a vast new working poor class and underemployed class make up a vast majority of our workers.
Not much is reported about the workers missing in action. Only about 38 percent of all workers in the USA qualify for unemployment insurance but the news reports ignore this fact and quote statistics that assume they cover the whole working force.
Only 20 percent of low wage workers are receiving unemployment insurance help. Many fail to make enough money in any given period to qualify for unemployment insurance although they work continuously. 70 percent of part-time workers are women. The news channels tell us that this figure is high because women only want to work part time. They do not tell us how many women would work full time if they had the chance. They also do not tell us how many women would prefer to stay home to raise their families if they could. We now have a generation of latch key children home alone raising themselves while both spouses must work to survive.
Also, most of the statistics now are based on family income and not on individual earnings as in the past. This again shows that few statistics can really compare to the past when primarily individual incomes were the base line for comparisons.
We do read stories about people turning down jobs because they get more money being on unemployment insurance. This may be true but the other side of the story is ignored. No one seems to want to write about the quality of the jobs that are out there and how a person or family can survive at such low wages. The media does not mix in the fact that approximately one if five workers are only employed part time. The total jobs numbers also do not specify how many of these jobs are held by the same person. With many working more than one part time job at a time.
Not only is the dignity of workers being degraded but everything related to the work day is too as shoppers shop their way out of their jobs due to the need to survive in a mixed up system. Only impoverished workers end up as the balancing act for free trade to work.
The unemployment rate and related things like unemployment insurance do not compute in our times. The statistics are bad to begin with and have no base to compare with. There is certainly very few ways to compare with the past when most jobs were full time jobs with benefits. Now with our production and factories in other lands the base line for comparison is very difficult to locate.
We talk about it at The Worlds News Net / jobless reporting needs work
The value of work been degraded with impoverished workers and a new working poor class in the USA replacing the middle class production workers. Jobs that were once considered entry level jobs are now the only jobs left. Some workers need to work up to three jobs at a time to survive. Others try to start up small ventures without much capital to back up the risk. Many former white collar workers who were considered part of the professional class are not underemployed. This is something new too in our ever declining work day.
Human dignity has been thrashed and no one wants to talk or write about it.
President Bush said the Mexican workers come here to take the jobs Americans do not want. He leaves out part of the story. After, more than 4,000 U.S. factories were moved to Mexico, we find there are Mexican workers who will not take the $1 per hour jobs and rather leave their homes and hunt down jobs that pay 5 to 8 times more in the USA.
News channels ignore this part of the story and the comparisons of job values with the past. Many of our real jobs have been exported to other lands and a vast new working poor class and underemployed class make up a vast majority of our workers.
Not much is reported about the workers missing in action. Only about 38 percent of all workers in the USA qualify for unemployment insurance but the news reports ignore this fact and quote statistics that assume they cover the whole working force.
Only 20 percent of low wage workers are receiving unemployment insurance help. Many fail to make enough money in any given period to qualify for unemployment insurance although they work continuously. 70 percent of part-time workers are women. The news channels tell us that this figure is high because women only want to work part time. They do not tell us how many women would work full time if they had the chance. They also do not tell us how many women would prefer to stay home to raise their families if they could. We now have a generation of latch key children home alone raising themselves while both spouses must work to survive.
Also, most of the statistics now are based on family income and not on individual earnings as in the past. This again shows that few statistics can really compare to the past when primarily individual incomes were the base line for comparisons.
We do read stories about people turning down jobs because they get more money being on unemployment insurance. This may be true but the other side of the story is ignored. No one seems to want to write about the quality of the jobs that are out there and how a person or family can survive at such low wages. The media does not mix in the fact that approximately one if five workers are only employed part time. The total jobs numbers also do not specify how many of these jobs are held by the same person. With many working more than one part time job at a time.
Not only is the dignity of workers being degraded but everything related to the work day is too as shoppers shop their way out of their jobs due to the need to survive in a mixed up system. Only impoverished workers end up as the balancing act for free trade to work.
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