Ehrenreich Is It Now a Crime to be Poor?, is an article by Barbara Ehrenreich that discusses the manner in which poverty has been criminalized in the American society. The main technique that Ehrenreich uses to make her argument that on the topic under discussion is the provision of real life examples. The approach has a great impact in convincing the reader that the delivered arguments and information are factual. In the article, Ehrenreich provides numerous examples of individuals who have faced the law for being poor. For example, Mr. Szekely, an ordained minister who neither abused drugs or alcohol nor cursed in the presence of women, had an arrest warrant. Mr. Szekely had missed a court date to face a “criminal trespassing” charge for
