No individual is guaranteed success or doomed to failure, however, the odds to succeed are stacked particularly against women, those born in poverty, and racial minorities. These groups lack upward mobility because they start with disadvantages and obstacles that make them have to work exceedingly hard to achieve success. Katheleen R. Arnold, a professor of political science at the University of Texas, states in “From America’s New Working Class," that low income Americans who receive workfare are restricted from their rights of allocation of their wage cite. These people lack equal opportunity and choices that ordinary workers normally have, such as investment on education. Workfare recipients allocate their salary to obtain basic needs and can not invest in an education. These people are not given the opportunity to be successful because they can not fulfil their contentment. Arnold also suggests that: “workfare is not about creating jobs for people that do not have them; it is about creating workers for jobs that nobody wants” (344). Nicolas Farvaque, a doctor of economic sciences, alludes that “being able to get a job is not an individual search issue only: it involves recruiters’ forms of judgment on the candidate’s qualities, and larger constraining structures, such as gender or racial discrimination” (“Mass Democratic Education”). Both Arnold and Farvaque agree that not every American has the same chance to succeed in the workforce because of discrimination based on social class, race, and
No individual is guaranteed success or doomed to failure, however, the odds to succeed are stacked particularly against women, those born in poverty, and racial minorities. These groups lack upward mobility because they start with disadvantages and obstacles that make them have to work exceedingly hard to achieve success. Katheleen R. Arnold, a professor of political science at the University of Texas, states in “From America’s New Working Class," that low income Americans who receive workfare are restricted from their rights of allocation of their wage cite. These people lack equal opportunity and choices that ordinary workers normally have, such as investment on education. Workfare recipients allocate their salary to obtain basic needs and can not invest in an education. These people are not given the opportunity to be successful because they can not fulfil their contentment. Arnold also suggests that: “workfare is not about creating jobs for people that do not have them; it is about creating workers for jobs that nobody wants” (344). Nicolas Farvaque, a doctor of economic sciences, alludes that “being able to get a job is not an individual search issue only: it involves recruiters’ forms of judgment on the candidate’s qualities, and larger constraining structures, such as gender or racial discrimination” (“Mass Democratic Education”). Both Arnold and Farvaque agree that not every American has the same chance to succeed in the workforce because of discrimination based on social class, race, and