53 Million Americans Drowning in Cycle of Low-Wage Work

TOPICS:Economic CollapseEmploymentTyler Durden

November 10, 2019
By Tyler Durden
It’s the “Greatest Economy Ever,” right? Well, it depends on who you ask.
For instance, a new report sheds light on 53 million Americans, or about 44% of all US workers, aged 18 to 64, are considered low-wage and low-skilled.
Many of these folks are stuck in the gig economy, making approximately $10.22 per hour, and they bring home less than $20,000 per year, according to a Brookings Institution report.

An overwhelmingly large percentage of these folks have insurmountable debts in that of student loans, auto loans, and or credit cards. Their wages don’t cover their debt servicing payments as their lives will be left in financial ruin after the next recession.
While the top 10% of Americans are partying like it’s 1999, most of whom own assets—like stocks, bonds, and real estate—are greatly prospering off the Federal Reserve’s serial asset bubble-blowing scheme and President Trump’s stock market pumping on Twitter.
Today’s artificial economy isn’t working for everyone as the wealth inequality gap swells to crisis levels. 
The US is at the 11th hour, one hour till midnight, as the wealth inequality imbalance will correct itself by the eruption of protests on the streets of major metro areas, sort of like what’s been happening across the world in Chile, Hong Kong, Lebanon, and Barcelona.
An uprising, a revolution, people are waking up to the fact that unelected officials and governments have ruined the economy and has resulted in their financial misery of low wages and insurmountable debts.
The report shows almost half of all low-wage workers are clustered in ten occupations, such as a retail salesperson, cooks and food preparation, building cleaners, and construction workers (these are some of the jobs that will get wiped out during the next recession).

Shown below, most of these low-wage workers are centered in areas around the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Rust Belt.

As we’ve detailed in past articles, millions of these low-wage and low-skilled jobs will never be replaced after the next recession, that’s due in part to mega corporations swapping out these jobs with automation and artificial intelligence.
The solution by the government and the Federal Reserve, to avoid riots in the streets, will be the implementation of various forms of quantitative easing for the people. 
There’s a reason why you already hear the debate of universal income, central banks starting to finance green investments, and other various forms of short/long-term stimulus, that is because the global economy is grinding to a halt—and the only solution at the moment is to do more of the same.

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By Tyler Durden | ZeroHedge.com |
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The problem isn’t the wages but the high state taxes, health insurance.
Many “poor” people blow money on cable tv , cigarettes, tattoos, bingo, etc.

And the State Lottery.   They are all lined up on welfare check day.

Misleading article by an institute that is known for cherry picking data and deceiving headlines. For instance, they say 'many of them make $10 per hour'. Sorry, but 'many' is not an economic unit of measure. Many can be 10, 100, 1000 or anything.

The article seems to forget about churn and the facts of economic mobility. Most people in the bottom 20% of wage earners move up and most families hit the top 20% sometime in their life.

In the US, no one is stuck where they are at unless they choose to stay there.

How dare you accuse Zerohedge off deceptions and  exaggerations  in this article because all the statistics comes from
government sources.
I been reading Zerohedge and Tyler Durden and consider them impeccable and honest reporting.
Keep your liberal opinions to yourself.