Where's the Middle Class?

Ever heard of the catch phrase, "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer"? That is exactly what's going on right now according this editoral piece, Bad News: Our Middle Class is Shrinking.


I absolutely agree with the author. Over the past few years, I've seen family members, friends, and strangers stumbling upon unemployment. It's a staggering thing to watch, when all we want is to have income to support ourselves and our families. Unemployment plays a big role in the United States. Just like the article states, "There's no magic involved in reversing these trends. An improving economy that brings jobs to the tens of millions unemployed will certainly help". There is not enough space for the middle class anymore. The rich keeps doing what they're doing while earning a great amount of money to live on whilst the poor...get poorer. Where does the middle class stand these days? What the author of this piece is trying to show the audience is, there's soon only to be the rich class and the poor class. The middle class is shrinking because the unemployment that captures people's abiliy to find work. It is either they can't find work or they've given up already due to their marriage, level of education, or they've troubled themselves by with illegal substances. The U.S. government needs to take action immediately or we'll end up unrecognizable like the article piece said.

"Without a robust middle class, America risks becoming, well, unrecognizable".

We need to find a way to stabilize our national government in hopes that we will have the three working classes again. "An improving economy that brings jobs to the tens of millions unemployed will certainly help". That is exactly what the United States need, an improving economy.

No Guarantee of a Job After Graduating?!

   Through the Austin American Statesman website, I ran into an article, "Graduating to the ranks of the unemployed?".  It's quite interesting and worth to read.  I believe it all relates to a lot of Americans and especially to us students. There's so many career choices to choose from but how do we know which one is most beneficial?  In my case, I've always heard people tell me to find a passion and make it into a job.  However, in the back of my head, I always tend to ask myself- what if that doesn't pay enough?  Students strive to be the best through many competitions with each other.  When we actually succeed, standing on stage with a diploma in hand-  there's no promise that we'll get the job that we truly desire.
   In the article, it states that many business students are looking for a job after graduation.  There's only two reasons why I think people would go into business: 1) Money making and 2) Passion.  However, we're never guaranteed a job.  Even some of the students at the University of Austin are delaying their graduation in hopes of seeing the economy recover.  Hopefully, our nation will recover and unemployment rates will decrease...Then people who actually earned the job, will get one.  Only the fear of being unable to land a job of your degree stands in the way...especially when you've worked hard for it.