2)Chris began his new job. Eight dollars an hour, 40 hours a week, $16,640 a year.<> An income of $11,490 for a person is defined a the poverty threshold.
3) She is 52 years old, and after 10 years of working as an attendant at a nursing home, a job that paid her $7 an hour when she began and $9.75 an hour when she was let go, she wonders if she will ever work again.
4)He thought he had a job as a stocker at K-mart, but on the day he was to start training, he didn't have bus fare, and that was that.
I see multiple things which are "societal problem" in the article.
"lazy kid can't keep a job because of his own personal problems"
Unless you have gone through a long bout of unemployment, where you get rejected on a daily basis, I would say you are not qualified to comment on the effect of such a episode on a persons morale and psychological well-being of this person. What you see as laziness just might be depression.
I am not completely justifying the person in the article. But I tend to view these things through a more compassionate eye after I went through a brief period of unemployment.
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