Many Guatemalans work as miners, farmers, fishers, textile factory workers, manual labor factory workers. Some more fortunate people have normal jobs in businesses or offices, but a large percent of the population has jobs in unsafe circumstances. Many very poor Guatemalan families, even young children, work sorting through the trash dumps to search for certain items like plastics and useful materials that could be salvaged and used again. They do this for extremely low and unfair pay.
There are terrible working conditions if you are not in the high class. Over 100,000 Guatemalans for example, work at maquilas which are factories where you manufacture clothing to be exported out. Many young girls and women work there, and usually the factories are full of illegal health hazards and are usually dangerous. What is even worse about these maquilas …show more content…
First with unemployment, according to If It Were My Home.com, in Guatemala you would be 56.16% more likely to be employed. But, you would make 89.96% less money (“Compare the U.S. to Guatemala”). You could be part of the 80% of the population that is living in poverty, or 60% of that number that is in extreme, utter poverty. The unemployment rate in Guatemala is 2.8%, while in the United States it is 7.4%. Like mentioned before, though, the jobs that one might have in Guatemala might very well be toilsome, manual, laborsome jobs with unfair pay and completely unsafe and unsanitary conditions. In the United States, there are strict codes and inspections for workers, so this would not be so. As far as inflation rate, Guatemala has a higher one. And, though technically the U.S. has a better economy because we have the highest GDP in the world, we contrastingly have the highest debt in the world while Guatemala has the 81st highest. The economies have good parts and bad parts, and they really equal each other out in most
There are terrible working conditions if you are not in the high class. Over 100,000 Guatemalans for example, work at maquilas which are factories where you manufacture clothing to be exported out. Many young girls and women work there, and usually the factories are full of illegal health hazards and are usually dangerous. What is even worse about these maquilas …show more content…
First with unemployment, according to If It Were My Home.com, in Guatemala you would be 56.16% more likely to be employed. But, you would make 89.96% less money (“Compare the U.S. to Guatemala”). You could be part of the 80% of the population that is living in poverty, or 60% of that number that is in extreme, utter poverty. The unemployment rate in Guatemala is 2.8%, while in the United States it is 7.4%. Like mentioned before, though, the jobs that one might have in Guatemala might very well be toilsome, manual, laborsome jobs with unfair pay and completely unsafe and unsanitary conditions. In the United States, there are strict codes and inspections for workers, so this would not be so. As far as inflation rate, Guatemala has a higher one. And, though technically the U.S. has a better economy because we have the highest GDP in the world, we contrastingly have the highest debt in the world while Guatemala has the 81st highest. The economies have good parts and bad parts, and they really equal each other out in most