Middle Class Crisis!

The issues of social class have been a huge topic of discussion for the past few weeks in class, and one of the topics we have been discussing is the idea that it is very hard for a person to change class. For example, it would be very difficult for a person of lower class to go to middle class, or middle to upper. The class systems are very strict that way. However, after recently reading an article I found on Yahoo! about the middle class, I learned that this is not the case.

The article, which you can read here, describes how people of middle class are facing serious economic problems. The article states that "Middle-income jobs have been replaced by low-income jobs, which now make up 41% of total employment.", and "17 million Americans with college degrees are doing jobs that require less than the skill levels associated with a bachelor's degree." These are frightening statistics.The fact that low income jobs now make up almost half of total employment proves that middle and upper income jobs are extremely hard to come by, and keep. Even more, 17 million Americans with college degrees are doing jobs that require less than the skill levels you earn with a bachelor degree. In class, we have been discussing how higher education is commonly associated with upper and middle class, however, if people with a college education are working in lower income jobs, with a lesser skill level, that is certainly changing.
The article comes with a video, and many other sobering statistics, and I encourage you to check it out. It really stuck out to me that people in the middle class are growing closer to lower class, clearly demonstrating that recently it has become much easier for a person to change class, more often for the worse.