When economic recession occurred, the part-time jobs were increasingly replaced with low-wage. According to the article “Recession Forever? 10 Reasons American Workers Are Screwed,” the author mentioned “the State and federal governments cut 835,000 jobs over the past four years, especially, middle-income positions. The new trend is the jobs concentrated in lower-wage occupations – the position would pay the federal minimum wage ($7.25 an hour).” It grew nearly “three times” as quickly as others. In other words, a small group of rich people were getting richer, the middle class was shrinking as many Americans slide down the economic ladder. In society, the teenager, who represent 23% of minimum-wage labor force, get the jobs to pay a lot of
