Multi Genre Project 6

Tabloid Article

Dennis Parks

4-30-14

Machines… Are They Increasing Unemployment? Or Nah?

Jobs in the U.S. have been lost this year, why is that? Expert John Clint says machines that are being placed in jobs are making unemployment higher than before. Machines seem to run faster than humans and gets the job done in seconds, but how is this helping the people who losing these jobs to technology. Technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and software automation applications will increasingly enable computers to do jobs that require significant training and education. College graduates who take "knowledge worker" jobs will find themselves threatened not only by low-wage offshore competitors but also by machines and software algorithms that can perform sophisticated analysis and decision making.

Manufacturing workers who work at the jobs that build things may be threatened the most because mostly all manufacturing jobs have machines that do most of the work. Workers may have to push themselves to the limit to compete with technology but may fail in the process. As unemployment rises and wages fall, consumer spending will likely fall because of unemployment which will have affect on most of the companies because of money that isn’t coming in. How can we survive this situation? How is technology helping unemployment? As technology rises in jobs, workers may find themselves in the bleak of unemployment.

Ford, Martin. "Technology and Automation Increase Unemployment." Unemployment. Ed. David Haugen and Susan Musser. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2011. Opposing Viewpoints. Rpt. from "The Truth About Unemployment—And Why It May Get Worse." Huffington Post. 2010. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 30 Apr. 2014.

Tim Blake

3456 Oracle Ave.

Detroit City, Mi

April 11, 2011

Mrs. Tara Coleman

2378 Rochester Dr.

Seattle, Washington

Dear Mrs. Coleman

Hello, my name is Tim Blake; I am attending the Columbia Prep High School, which I’m a junior there. I am writing this letter because I am doing an assignment. I have to pick an expert on our topic and ask a few questions so we can understand more about it. So if it isn’t a bother, I would like to ask you about children with unemployed parents.

The question I want to ask is how are children affected by their parents being unemployed? I have tried searching for information about this, but found little info on this topic. The Information I found out here is that in 2011, Unemployment averaged 9.0 percent, leaving 12.7 million Americans out of work. This is a distressingly high rate. Also the children are impacted by the recession we are in, even though this country is getting better. There are many American children in poverty because parents lose their jobs. Parental Job loss can harm a kid in a number of ways, like a sharp declines in family income which may cause less buying of foods, which can cause a kid to starve, can affect a child’s future goals, like children who are in poverty may not be able to get into good schools, and most importantly, cause parents to harm their child in if the parents have undergone psychological distress because of being unemployed. Also there are about 6.5 million children under the age of 18 living in families with an unemployed parent and also 1 million of these kids are from California, which has the second highest rate of unemployment.

Mrs. Coleman, I would appreciate if you can help me with this topic by supplying me with more information about children with unemployed parents. This would help me in my further assignments, too. If you would like to contact me about my topic; my email is blake.tim36@gmail.com or contact me by phone at 1-456-4789-2468. 

Sincerely

Tim Blake

Isaascs, Julia B. “The US Recession Continues to Impact Children.” What is the Future Of the Us Economy? Ed. Ronald D. Lankford, Jr. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2013. At Issue. Rpt. From “The Recession’s Ongoing Impact on American Children.” Brookings. Vol.  3. 2011. Opposing  Viewpoints in Context. Web. 3. Apr. 2014.