Summary Of The Uses Of Poverty: The Poor Pay All

“The Uses of Poverty: The Poor Pay All” written by, Herbert J. Gans. Teaches you how the upper class benefit from the poor. For example, working for a low wages jobs, take advantage of immigrants, takeaway their rights to vote and Harlem is becoming white. Those are some example of how the upper class is benefitting from the poor and anyone who lives in poverty. Working at a low wage job sounds awful, but in reality it benefits the upper class families. A lot of our factories are located in China and that’s where we get a lot of our stuff comes from China. The Chinese have cheaper workers: The average hourly wage for Chinese manufacturing workers is less than a tenth that of their average U.S. counterparts, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (Kavoussi, 2012). Factories would start producing more products and means we’ll buy more goods and pay less. The means the upper class …show more content…
Black men who are ineligible to vote will have a huge effect on the outcome of the election. African Americans were more likely to support the Democratic Party. White and wealthy are more likely to vote Republican. The upper class benefit so much when they’re a Republican in office. The rich look out for one and other. Many African American will not vote because they have a criminal record or feel like they were miss treated. I believe once you have served your sentence you should have the right to vote again. The rich upper class hates seeing a democrat in office, because they're not benefitting from them. Disenfranchised black males account for 35 percent of all Americans now barred from voting because of felony convictions. (ABC News). That’s why they have so many laws that prevents felons from