Emilio Vasquez
Log 17
In the article its informing the reader of the harsh reality that poor people have to face on a daily basis compared to their middle class or higher counterparts. People that live below the poverty line have to pay more for certain things like food for example. People living below the poverty line have time, exhaustion, risk, and many other inconveniences against them for even the most basic needs. Poor people for example have to pay more food items because they don’t have the luxury of owning a car and drive to their local Costco or safeway for cheaper food items. The homeless and those struggling under the middle class have to pay higher amounts for transportation and other things that even people in the middle class …show more content…
Right now in the United States more than 37 million people live below the poverty line according to the US census Bureau. Being poor especially here in the U.S. puts you at many disadvantages unlike your middle class counterparts and they don’t have time to do anything like laundry for example. Taking the bus when being poor is hard because it takes so time consuming and you have transfer to multiple buses to get to your location and it costs money to take the bus as unlike when you have your own car and can decide when to leave and go. In the article they interviewed Nya Oti a food service worker who explains that not owing her very own car, washer and dryer makes thing so much harder. She has to take the bus to the laundry and then has to wait many hours to finish her many loads of washing because she cant be making multiple trips a week because simply she just doesn’t have the time to. When you’re poor you have to sacrifice time for money. The poor work many hours to just survive financially. Then when you need to spend it its like everything is being taken after putting in so many hours of hard work. Even when it comes to pay checks the poor have to go to check cashing and pay day loans which cost them again time and money well the rich and middle class
Log 17
In the article its informing the reader of the harsh reality that poor people have to face on a daily basis compared to their middle class or higher counterparts. People that live below the poverty line have to pay more for certain things like food for example. People living below the poverty line have time, exhaustion, risk, and many other inconveniences against them for even the most basic needs. Poor people for example have to pay more food items because they don’t have the luxury of owning a car and drive to their local Costco or safeway for cheaper food items. The homeless and those struggling under the middle class have to pay higher amounts for transportation and other things that even people in the middle class …show more content…
Right now in the United States more than 37 million people live below the poverty line according to the US census Bureau. Being poor especially here in the U.S. puts you at many disadvantages unlike your middle class counterparts and they don’t have time to do anything like laundry for example. Taking the bus when being poor is hard because it takes so time consuming and you have transfer to multiple buses to get to your location and it costs money to take the bus as unlike when you have your own car and can decide when to leave and go. In the article they interviewed Nya Oti a food service worker who explains that not owing her very own car, washer and dryer makes thing so much harder. She has to take the bus to the laundry and then has to wait many hours to finish her many loads of washing because she cant be making multiple trips a week because simply she just doesn’t have the time to. When you’re poor you have to sacrifice time for money. The poor work many hours to just survive financially. Then when you need to spend it its like everything is being taken after putting in so many hours of hard work. Even when it comes to pay checks the poor have to go to check cashing and pay day loans which cost them again time and money well the rich and middle class