Jose was laid off in 2008 due to the financial crisis in the…

Jose was laid off in 2008 due to the financial crisis in the US. This crisis forced many employers to downsize their company. As a result, Jose went from being upper middle, to class to lower class. The only job he could get was a part-time job at Walmart. He could not find a job that would pay him higher wages until the economy was more stable in 2017. Jose’s case is an example of structural social mobility