Americas economy is weak at best and this has ultimately resulted in high unemployment rates which in return has reduced the standard of living, and diminishing the American dream. According to the author our country is in fear because our economy is experiencing a structural shift and has been for a long time and has led a once optimistic country into angry and unforgiving. “They fear that we are in the midst of not a cyclical downturn but a structural shift, one that poses huge new challenges to the average American job, pressures the average American wage and endangers the average American Dream” (Zakaria). Additionally, the author touches on how much technology and how global companies are, has affected the average American job. “That
