1. A staggering
48 percent of all Americans are either considered to be “low income” or are living in poverty.
2. Approximately
57 percent of all children in the United States are living in homes that are either considered to be “low income” or impoverished.
3. If the number of Americans that “wanted jobs” was the same today as it was back in 2007, the “official” unemployment rate put out by the U.S. government would be up to
11 percent.
4. The average amount of time that a worker stays unemployed in the United States is now
over 40 weeks.
5. One recent survey found that
77 percent of all U.S. small businesses do not plan to hire any more workers.
6. There are fewer payroll jobs in the United States today
than there were back in 2000 even though we have added 30 million extra people to the population since then.
7. Since December 2007, median household income in the United States has declined by a total of
6.8 percent once you account for inflation.
8. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 16.6 million Americans were self-employed back in December 2006. Today, that number has shrunk
to 14.5 million.
9. A Gallup poll from earlier this year found that
approximately one out of every five Americans that do have a job consider themselves to be underemployed.
10. According to author Paul Osterman, about
20 percent of all U.S. adults are currently working jobs that pay poverty-level wages.
11. Back in 1980,
less than 30 percent of all jobs in the United States were low income jobs. Today,
more than 40 percent of all jobs in the United States are low income jobs.
Too many to list.
