Weak U.S. Recovery

In the journal titled Weak U.S. Recovery, it begins by talking about the Cold War and how when the troops arrived back home there was a dramatic loss of jobs and money. The defence and reasoning was put on spending for the Cold War. Because of this, unemployment had increased to 7.8 percent and had then recieved the reputation of "jobless recover". A passage from the journals says, "The news, however, was not all bad. By mid-1993 almost two million new jobs had been added to the U.S. economy, and by August unemployment had fallen to 6.7%." Although the workers were offered many more jobs there were still flaws in the system. With the millions of jobs being offered, there were millions of dissipointed U.S. citizens. "Fewer laid-off workers were being called back to their old jobs because those jobs had disappeared for good. In addition, the kinds of positions workers had to choose from were in many ways less attractive than those offered in the past." For someone to come across a well paid job, was simply said as difficult. Because of the troubles the U.S. was suffering the Clinton administration had proposed a few new ideas to help fill the pot holes that the war had pounded into the U.S. Economy. One way was with the national apprentice program that the administration had made. This program helped train the United states youth with a variety of skills such as, computer programming. Activities like this were promising to the U.S.' future because it was told to be making one of its first huge break throughs for its time.

This article reminded me of 'Roger and Me' because in both pieces there was an unexpected flaw in the system that winded up putting enormous dampers on large amounts of people in a very quick amount of time. In the documentary Roger and Me, the town of Flint encounters an unexpected but very crucial loss of jobs formed by a closing of their General Motors Factory closing, and in the article Weak U.S. Recovery the entire United States felt the same type of unemployment wrath, but this time created by the war. In both instances their was a main event from a specific dependance that the area focused and depended on. Meaning, the town of Flint relied on GM Factories as one of its major money suppliers and just as much of a money loser. That same concepts goes along with the United states and the war.



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