My home state of Michigan has one of the highest unemployment rates in the United States. The states economy was built on the car industry. Making cars, selling cars, and all of the items that go into the cars that they wanted you to buy. My eldest brother works for a company that supplies to the car industry. My middle brother was layed off from an industry supplier after having worked for them for 29+ years. Isn’t that a kick in the pants?
With all of the down turns, and no real up turns in Michigan the number of working poor continues to climb. As our economy has continued to turn from manufacturing economy to a service economy we have watched wages stagnate, and the cost of everything else sky rocket. Rent goes up, utilities go up, fuel costs go up. CEO’s make millions while the families of the employees that were layed off to make those millions struggle to get by.
Something is very, very wrong here.
Namaste.
