By Michael Snyder: The
stock market may be soaring to unprecedented heights, but things just
continue to get even tougher for the middle class. In this economic
environment, there is intense competition for virtually all kinds of
jobs. For example, more than 1,600 applications were recently submitted
for just 36 jobs at an ice cream plant in Hagerstown, Maryland. That
means that those applying have about a 2 percent chance of being hired.
About 98 percent of the applicants will be turned away. That is how
tough things are in many areas of the country today. It is now more
than five years after the great financial crash of 2008, and the level
of employment in the United States is still almost exactly where it was at
during the worst moments of the last recession. And this is just the
beginning. The next major financial crash is rapidly approaching, and
once it strikes our employment crisis is going to get much, much worse.Working at an ice cream plant does not pay very well. But at least it beats flipping burgers or stocking shelves at Wal-Mart. And in this economy, there is no shortage of desperate workers that are willing to take just about any job that they can find. The following is how a Breitbart article described the flood of applications that were received for just 36 positions at an ice cream plant owned by Shenandoah Family Farms in Hagerstown, Maryland...


