In that era of strong unions and full employment, few families experienced joblessness or serious economic insecurity.
Recent college graduates are both skilled and mobile, yet they experience high joblessness, demonstrating, once again, that a lack of jobs stems primarily from a lack of demand in a weak economy.
They have experienced rising joblessness, underemployment, and malemployment problems (i.e. working in jobs that do not require a college degree).
Other places, like Mississippi, spent much of middle 20th century escaping from excruciating poverty, only to experience increases in joblessness over the past 20 years.
Working-age offspring, it found, remained committed to conventional values about work and were keen to avoid the joblessness experienced by their parents.
And for an administration critiqued by many as being out of touch with the pain of poverty and joblessness experienced on a daily basis by tens of millions of Americans, the added cost to the federal budget of such an employment-generating programme would be defrayed by huge long-term dividends.
Finally, men with prior arrests experience longer spells of joblessness than other men, and they earn substantially lower wages.
In stage three, the global and the local are fused, as geopolitical grievance resonates with personal experience of discrimination or joblessness.
Current employment status only partly captures employability associated to the level and type of education, because individuals who are currently employed may have experienced previous periods of joblessness.
Communities of color, who experience the highest rates of joblessness and poverty, have also been hardest hit by environmental injustices.
