2014-12 (3) English translation

Passage

In 1950, a young man would has found it much easier than it is today to get and keep a job in the auto industry.

Would has done---subjunctive mood, expressing assumptions about past events, meaning "would have made" find–found-found

The first it means the whole sentence followed by the second it means today to get and keep a job in the auto industry

Auto industry here Auto does not translate automatically, but translates into cars, followed by industry

In 1950, a young man should have been more likely than today to obtain and retain a job in the automotive industry.

And in this year the average autoworker could meet monthly mortgage (mortgage) payments on a average home with just 13.4 Perce NT of his take-home pay.

Meet can be translated as payment, verb

In that year, average car workers paid 13.4% per cent of their real wages in monthly mortgages.

Today a similar mortgage would claim more than twice this share of his monthly earnings.

Claim claims that this translates into a need

Today, the same loan needs to exceed twice times the monthly wage-share ratio.

Other members of the Autoworker ' s family, however, might is less inclined to trade the present for the past.

Might is less translated as unwilling, the original meaning, rarely possible, almost impossible.

Inclined to incline to something, literally, to do.

The present for the past is difficult to translate, trade is intended for trading, the present for the past past percentage.

There are fewer possibilities to do trade (verbs) in the past. The simple thing is that you don't want to trade your past life with the present.

However, other members of the family of automobile workers are unwilling to use the present life to exchange the past life.

His retired parents would certainly has had less economic security back then.

Parents parents

Economic security literally means economic safety, translated here for economic protection

His retired parents must have had less financial security at the time.

Throughout much of the 1960s, more than a quarter of men and women age and older lived below the poverty level, compare D to less than percent in2010.

Poverty poverty

Compared to less than percent in2010. That's not the same as 2010.10%,a compared to b,a and B refers to the proportion of living standards of life in the past, compared with the current standard of living ratio, the lesser than P Ercent in2010 the proportion of which 2010 was less than 10%

For most of the the 1960s, more than one-fourth of men and women aged 65 and above lived below the poverty level, compared with less than 10% in 2010.

2014-12 (3) English translation