The Price of the American Dream
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 มี.ค. 2024
- Since the economic crisis of 2009, over nine million jobs have been created in America. Officially, the recession is over. But American workers have come out of the crisis more vulnerable and even poorer than ever. 46.7 million Americans live in poverty with around 15% of the US population living below the poverty line. But they aren’t unemployed - most of them have at least two jobs. They’re ‘the working poor’. Meet the people behind America’s economic recovery.
Director : HÉLÈNE ECKMANN - บันเทิง
Yes.
Today March 11th 2024.
The Supreme Court is deciding if homelessness is a crime.
Also the reason employment rates are up because is because people have to work 3 jobs to pay the rent.
Homelessness a crime??? What on earth
The keys to getting out of poverty are simple: education and birth control.
NAILED it girl!
An acquaintance’s daughter is about to have her second child, and she’s 26; Mom is 50 something.
We were chatting about why responsible family planning and Plan B seems to be SO difficult.
I’m extremely grateful my 22 year old son is in college and knows he isn’t going anywhere until he gets a degree that matches mine or his father’s.
It’s such a simple, proven and just path, why do people choose an uncertain and unhealthy one?
That said, I am sympathetic to people of circumstance.
I’ll never understand.
I’m glad there are people out there like you who do AND know right from wrong.
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Stay safe mate✌🏼🌎
Because not everyone is born with a brain 🧠
This is incredibly sad it’s a shame what this system does to people
People do it to themselves.
Welcome to real life. Jobs pay based on the value they create. If you want to make good money, you need to do things that are high value. This has always been reality.
@@LaFonteCheVi Just because you have a higher paying job doesn’t mean you are “high value” CEOs aren’t payed based on how efficiently they run the company and EMTs and Paramedics aren’t payed highly at all yet have what a person who doesn’t base peoples value on how much they earn calls high value
@@ContrarianExpatriate The poor does not mean to be punished
California will have a $25 minimum wage starting in April. Mcdonald's is looking great!
Birth control is essential to getting out of poverty!🤧
But then how would the mega-corps maintain their supply of slave laborers? Personal responsibility and no healthcare is just a way to increase corporate profits.
I hate we are so blinded by politics we think that the president matters. Private corporations set their prices. Private Corporations pay their CEOs ungodly amounts of money while paying base employees peanuts.
As long as corporations remain greedy while making record profits and raising prices, nothing will change.
Why do they keep changing the name of this documentary but it’s the same documentary
Trying to get people upset with current administration. This is a pre pandemic documentary.
This documentary was originally commissioned from Al Jazeera. They are stealing their copyright plain and simple
Because they can! It's not illegal!
'Profits before people'
The American Dream is a myth that keeps people going. You have a few amazing success stories and thousands of people struggling hard just to stay alive. But we see the first ones and leave the second unseen and unheard. If we say the economy is an engine workers nowadays are the cheapest fuel for it. They don't drive don't enjoy the ride and don't have a destination. They just burn.
It's sad how people don't see anything wrong with this they see it as something else, I lost 4 friends to off themselves cause they work hard in college, finish and couldn't find a job and stuffer so much they couldn't take the stress of begin a serf.
No the top ten percent don't care. When half the country is living paycheck to paycheck, what can they do about it other than struggle to stay afloat....
@rickmaurer8726 well my friends where afraid of the idea of going homeless, again these aren't people who got bad degrees one got a computer engineering one, and all of them had nothing to lose they never had a relationship nor house so they decided to do that.
You need a business not a job to break poverty 😢
You have to be asleep to believe it
George Carlin
I have to say, make better choices! Don't have kids at a young age and educate yourself. Network and find a career, not multiple jobs. It is tough here in America, but it can be done as long as you don't dig yourself a deep hole. Stop smoking and drinking because it's expensive and it has no nutritional value. Teach your kids to hang out with the right crowd not the wrong ones. It wasn't easy for me, but I made smart decisions and am able to live the American Dream, but there were a lot of sacrifices and at one point I almost gave up, but good thing I didn't.
Getting educated is what made me poor. I was absolutely fine before I went back to school at age 33. Graduating with my Bachelors in HDFS catapulted me into poverty and made my life exponentially worse.
@@danisouris3429 You have to look at the job market and see what is out there before going to school for something. I graduated with a BS in Finance and didn't get anything out of it, but then I went back to school for Radiologic Technologist and doing well with that. Research and look at the demand and look at the salary. Don't just go to school for a sociology major and say hey! I graduated and make only $20 an hour.
@@danisouris3429I agree with you completely. I wanted my son to go to college which was a mistake. He has school loans and the interest is crazy. He is not a minority and did not qualify for grants. He has to live at home because of the interest charged to student loans and he can’t afford a place of his own. It’s a big trap in my opinion and it doesn’t help everyone.
and what exactly entails this "American Dream" that you are living, pray tell us !
We still need to be thankful for what we got..some people don’t even have a job and home..other countries live in the box😌
I've seen this. Great doc though.😢
The American Dream ended when the Moon missions ended. That also coincided with the defeat in Vietnam. The expenditure by government since the late 1950s arms race and space race prevented us from having things that most advanced economies provide to their citizens such as universal healthcare and a national pension. These services were gifted to the insurance industry. Since then, its only got worse as wage rates teeter at 3rd world levels. We are now left with 0.1% of the population holding 80% of the nations wealth. Both political parties are to blame because they are dominated by big business who want the gravy train to continue.
I love your content, but some of them do not have dubbing and subtitles. If you add even just English subtitles to the videos that you cannot work on, it will be translated into other languages and will take an understandable form...
gotta struggle and save every penny possible, and DO THINGS YOURSELF and you CAN make it with time.
We are slaves in this country.....
This thing is really old.
Let’s update ok?
Why are the old documentaries here repeated for years now? Is anybody still 'at home' with this Film crew or company, or what is going on here? They might not exist anymore! Some of the documentaries are 10 to 20 years old.
This was uploaded 5 days ago so the filming is from 2024 or 2023!
Because regardless of the hours, all jobs are counted - even part time gig jobs of which there are many more than full time jobs. So, now we have a bunch of low paying part time jobs and less of high paying stable full time jobs. The unemployment rate is highly misleading. Plus, inflation and stagnant wages makes managing life much worse.
I have been there. Worked 2 jobs and worked my way through school. Moved up constantly to higher pay. Bought my first house at 21. Saved even when I had no money. Sold my plasma. Whatever it took. Including no mate or children until I was able to care for them. These stories could be changed.
Not everyone wants to work 2 jobs an wrk ur way up when the hole world is fucking burning right in front our fucking faces we just sit an watch netflicks or CNN an eat mac ds an chick feeeelay this world sickens me FTW
Hardly anyone ever seems to realize that prosperity for all, and jobs do not need and should not be related in the way they are now. If you have to ‘create’ jobs for it to work, and there is poverty because there are not enough jobs, but the country is not poor, something is wrong with the system, ánd with the society you live in. And that is just one of many things that are wrong with the economy and our society, but it’s also logical if the vast majority does not even see how ridiculous, for example, the whole job thing really is.
There is no poor country in world.Only how money i divided.
@@MrVaidas82 The financial inequality is just the result and a symptom of what is actually wrong. There are definitely poor countries in the world if you compare them to the rich countries, but it is true that even in those poorer countries poverty exists because money ends up in the hands of a few privileged individuals.
Same documentary.Damn make some new ones!
When will people realize that we are all responsible for this and instead of pointing fingers outwardly we should look at ourselves first. Surely there are some very humble people who do not desire and ask for much and they are content with little but many of us have desired more and more. It feels so much better to blame the other side for everything but for many they aren't being honest. Nothing is impossible for the Lord God and Master, but I believe while men slept evil crept in.. If you truly believe that Jesus Christ is Lord and master and that no thing is impossible for the Lord God then you can overcome all of these things in the world! Do not be unbelieving but believing!!
California will have a $25 minimum wage starting in April. Mcdonald's is looking great!
37 hours for 900$ 😮 ? U 4 real? this is very low.
that's $24.32 an hour, that's not a bad wage
@@GamerSaeM Especially for a job that generates so little value.
@@GamerSaeM They said 37 hours a week for 900 $ a month. That's like 8$ an hour
@@ghbnhghjk I only read his comment and based it off that, I missed that part, definitely very low.
*edit wait... I just did the math and if she makes $900 a month that's $10,800 a year and 37 hours a week = 1924 hours a year. $10,800/1924 would be $5.61 an hour, that's lower than minimum wage so something isn't right about your comment.
Seattle is only the 9th most expensive city in the USA not the 4th
I believe people who have a child find the will to live under these circumstances, for the child. Without that purpose ,only to wake up and drudge through the pain alone, why would you?
Are you serious?? I wouldn't bring a child into this mess, and I manage just fine without one.
Re-Upload? 🥱
Why are the same documentaries uploaded again and again?
Cut back on spending And you'll be find.
thats the system North America choose. Thats the American way, living for work.
Where is humanity?😢😢😢
You guys should compare things with SouthKorea. Specially the work part...
Unfair comparison because South Korea is a third-world country where the US is not.
5:45 such a horrible time to wake up. When did he go to bed?
I think she needs more kids... That will help her out of poverty..
Stop blaming one person trust me its more then anyone knows and if they did they'd be dead .
Fix you and that helps the vibration on earth.
There's always a a narrated theme depending on whos paying you .
There's truth and there's lies .
Keep aware my fellow humans .
Stop believing everything youhear and see
Who is here after watching the North Korean documentary released by Best Documentary?
Jack Welch
You have it....There is more inequality....There are the rich and the poor.
This is half of working Americans
Everything great according to Biden and his state of the union address.
So broke whips out a smoke. But how do people survive on that amount of money.
And goes to the pen
This looks like a repost
Where do you overtake here bro. Seriously people hate on Monaco but there are literally 4 or 5 overtake spots. I only saw the last turn as a real strategic overtake chance wow
Ummm...what?
come in to Iran and taste Iranian dreams
So its france paying to make the story go their way umm
The American NIGHTMARE AKA THE DREAM
Old video
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💸Thanks, Great Documentary on Modern Slavery! By the way a true American Dream could happen with an 💸Intelligent Basic Income (some free money for poor people).
I grew up in the 60’s. In the American dream. So many could afford first homes and go up from there. On one income. Over the decades the elite puppeteers have been doing their long game to turn American citizens into slaves to the system. We are very close to be taken over and turned into O W G. I’m hoping it’s not too late. Think it’s bad now go look at China and how those citizens live everyday under C rule or worse Venezuela or Ethiopia
The invasion going on now will eventually destroy everything we know to be precious
The government owes ALL of us reparations. We are all slaves. Paying high taxes for their corruption and dirty work. I won’t even get into the migrant situation 🤬
Cute American,☺😁🤣🤣
Wages are a pittance, but Republican America won't make it better, they are for cutting wages to make more profits
Nonsense. Most major corporations are solidly democratic in support. The idea that Republicans are the "party of big business" is about 40 years out of date with reality.
Replace “republican” with the government and you will have learned something lol
That left right
Republican vs democrat paradigm is the cage every rat they own is stuck in
I will still give the republicans a chance Biden is destroying not inly usa but the whole continent
Usa paradis NON enfer OUI
american nightmare.....
Usa! Usa! Usa! Usa! New World orde!......
Another slave in the system!
First thing to do to NOT HAVE FUCKING KIDS! IF YOU CAN'T FEED OR HOUSE YOUR SELF, DON'T HAVE MORE TO FEED! all that hard work could be going to a house. Later on after you have made something of yourself and can give your kids a home to grow up in. Then when they get college age sell this home use the money to help your kids get a start and to buy yourself a place where you want to live. That's the truth American dream hard work pays off
T h e American Dream, you build it Not usa.
I live it daily. U just have to work for it.... no free rides.
Привет из России!) Донецк! Путин президент Америки тогда все хорошо будет!)
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Wanna settle in america forever but keep on cursing and threathing america. Why the hell? Leave america alone!
Why shareholders have become everything. Isn't there anything good to distribute money for? Humans should work for humans and money should be limited to compensation for the work not the other way around.
Bye bye America
There is a reason to call it “a dream”.. Because you can have or see only when you asleep 😊
Welcome to America, a government of corporations for corporations.
Come to CA
Said nobody ever.
@@LaFonteCheVi California will have a $25 minimum wage starting in April. Mcdonald's is looking great! I'm 17 and plan to move there next year!
Just goes to show how out of touch joe Rogan is when giving life advices. PMO
American Failure starts with politics. Anyone hearing about Ukraine Failing?
Rich become richer poor become poorer .. business owners don't want to pay good money
This is laughable propaganda at best 😂😂😂
Slavery never ended.
A appropriate reality check. Vote Democrat. Persevere. Good luck
gone under biden
Policy researcher here… you are wrong. Every safety net has been removed by Republicans, and low wages a result of their greed. Go ahead, vote in less again!
Unfortunately, all Republicans and Democrats get credit for why this country failed for happiness as this has been happening for decades. From the decrease of the dollar, unaffordable health care, never taxing the rich in relevance of the workers of their undeserved wealth, making affordable college, affordable pharmaceutical perscriptions, terrible mininum wage for decades, and so on. Until you stop blinding your visibility with your MAGA dunce hat. You literally are beyond uneducated as Trump loves (from his 2016 election speech) to see that no politician will do anything right. Keep being another div8ded American, it's no wonder why even our Allies want nothing to do with us from both Republicans and Republicans to burning bridges. Check your history, not Fox, CNN, or other pointless news media.
This is happening all over the world 🌎
Biden is not the President of the world 🌍
Educate yourself
Watch hundreds of thousands of TH-cam videos about other countries going through the same thing
no, not Biden. the falling rate of profit and expiration of capitalism
No it’s called currency debasement
Get government assistance
Charma Charma..
The American Dream is a neurotic delusion for intellectually challenged White people.
Ask an economist how much American consumers have lost on the depreciation of automobiles each year since Sputnik.
What is Net Domestic Product?
This is an old documentary. Several years before the pandemic.
It was uploaded 5 days ago so it's from 2024!
The military is a great option. 💯 ❤🤍💙
Fight for a country that hates you? No thanks.
Vanessa Guillen’s family would disagree.
Only cost you a leg and PTSD 🦵 🤪
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