illness without the possibility of receiving treatment, or paying the debt from the medical bill.
9 Union decay was attributed to reforms in the economy and political conflict in the workplace. How this weakening affected the families of the film “Two American Families.” If the unions were active in companies, what would they do to help the workers?
Unions decay because of changes in the economy, jobs went overseas and paid low and the shift to technology machinery that required high skill workers. In the film, the two parent’s head of household worked in a union manufactory, but manufactories began to look for low-priced labor in non-union states. Many lost their jobs and the new jobs paid half of what the families used to make. The decline …show more content…
The top one percent income grew 98.7 and the rest of the families at a 20.3 solid in 1993 to 2000. Nevertheless, in 2002 and 2007 the rest of families’ income decreased from 20.3 percent to 6.8 percent. This huge difference in income clarifies part of the scarcity of money the two families in the video were having. The different percentages explain the economic disparity the public was experiencing and the connection to each presidential administration. Bush promised the people in 1991 more work during his administration, but it did not occur for the contrary inequality increased, lower paid jobs appear and with fewer benefits. The stagnation of wages was one factor for the two families to be unable to stabilize their economy. Clinton’s expansion had the lowest employment rate and it actually improve a little people way of living. Mr. Newman was able to get a decent job in 1993 but the problem was the wage, manufactory paid low and no benefits, which did not help the family so much. During Bush, administration there was an expansion that decreased unemployment but the great recession appeared and there was a crash in the housing market. Consequently, during the year of recession 2008 and 2010, a trend of foreclosure explodes, and owners lost their properties. Even though, there were promises of growth the top percent was the one that took most of the income growth affecting the rest of families; and the two recessions affected those at the bottom more than the top
9 Union decay was attributed to reforms in the economy and political conflict in the workplace. How this weakening affected the families of the film “Two American Families.” If the unions were active in companies, what would they do to help the workers?
Unions decay because of changes in the economy, jobs went overseas and paid low and the shift to technology machinery that required high skill workers. In the film, the two parent’s head of household worked in a union manufactory, but manufactories began to look for low-priced labor in non-union states. Many lost their jobs and the new jobs paid half of what the families used to make. The decline …show more content…
The top one percent income grew 98.7 and the rest of the families at a 20.3 solid in 1993 to 2000. Nevertheless, in 2002 and 2007 the rest of families’ income decreased from 20.3 percent to 6.8 percent. This huge difference in income clarifies part of the scarcity of money the two families in the video were having. The different percentages explain the economic disparity the public was experiencing and the connection to each presidential administration. Bush promised the people in 1991 more work during his administration, but it did not occur for the contrary inequality increased, lower paid jobs appear and with fewer benefits. The stagnation of wages was one factor for the two families to be unable to stabilize their economy. Clinton’s expansion had the lowest employment rate and it actually improve a little people way of living. Mr. Newman was able to get a decent job in 1993 but the problem was the wage, manufactory paid low and no benefits, which did not help the family so much. During Bush, administration there was an expansion that decreased unemployment but the great recession appeared and there was a crash in the housing market. Consequently, during the year of recession 2008 and 2010, a trend of foreclosure explodes, and owners lost their properties. Even though, there were promises of growth the top percent was the one that took most of the income growth affecting the rest of families; and the two recessions affected those at the bottom more than the top