80 Percent Of U.S. Adults Face Near-Poverty, Unemployment: Survey

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16. My parents were 8th grade dropouts and got married at age 16.

4 kids, my dad was a mechanic, my mother worked at home.

Just to make sure you understand there were no silver spoons at our house.

Since my 14th birthday in 1966, I have never spent a day unemployed.

Yet I'm not rich. Strange, isn't it?

I'm quite sure the SUMMARY statement in the article is correct, and I can tell by looking at our own tenants that things are growing drastically worse in the last decade. And I live right in the middle of what's supposed to be a HOT economy here in west Texas. You cannot imagine the desperate people who come here on their last dime wanting to work and lacking the skills needed for the oil field. As a result, our homeless rate is up drastically, 87% of the kids at my high school qualify for free or reduced lunch.

Yes, things are getting drastically worse.