The Working Poor One constant problem that we see in America is poverty. No matter the measures that have been taken to eliminate it, nothing has been able to solve the problem. It is such a difficult problem to tackle, although a common stereotype in the United States is that people who are poor are stupid or uneducated. It has been proven that it is extremely hard to make a living in this country on minimum wage budget. People can spend their whole lives living in poverty, never being able to escape. But why is it so hard to rise out of poverty. Theoretically, it should be easy. A person could get a job, start making money and saving money, and bam, their financial problems are solved. This shows the two sides of the poverty argument;
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By using Barbara Ehrenreich’s article, “Working in Florida”, Steven Malanga’s, “The Myth of the Working Poor”, Kimberly Noble’s study on how low income’s affect the brain’s of children, and Poverties’, “Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty” we will see different view points on who people think are the …show more content…
One example of ethos is her first-hand experience with living in poverty. She is able to say that she has actually lived in poverty and knows how hard it can be. Although, by only using her point of view in her book, she is extremely bias, because not everyone’s situation is the same as hers. Ehrenreich also uses pathos to prove her point. She tells us all about how terrible her coworkers have it. This lets us get wrapped up in her story by humanizing them; we are to feel compassion for her and others living in the same situation. One thing that separates Erenreich from the others that examine the poverty problem is her lack of logos. She never tells us any statistics or numbers related to poverty to help prove her point. She mostly wants you to believe her because she has lived it and knows what she is talking about, and doesn’t use any factual data to back herself up. In Malanga’s article he analyzes two authors books. One happens to be Ehrenreich and the other is David Shipler, the author of The Working Poor. This article gives a different insight on poverty as not being the people’s fault as everyone normally assumes it is, but the fault of our corrupt government system. The working class could be doing everything the government expects from them liking getting a job and possibly trying to get a higher education, but they could still remain in
By using Barbara Ehrenreich’s article, “Working in Florida”, Steven Malanga’s, “The Myth of the Working Poor”, Kimberly Noble’s study on how low income’s affect the brain’s of children, and Poverties’, “Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty” we will see different view points on who people think are the …show more content…
One example of ethos is her first-hand experience with living in poverty. She is able to say that she has actually lived in poverty and knows how hard it can be. Although, by only using her point of view in her book, she is extremely bias, because not everyone’s situation is the same as hers. Ehrenreich also uses pathos to prove her point. She tells us all about how terrible her coworkers have it. This lets us get wrapped up in her story by humanizing them; we are to feel compassion for her and others living in the same situation. One thing that separates Erenreich from the others that examine the poverty problem is her lack of logos. She never tells us any statistics or numbers related to poverty to help prove her point. She mostly wants you to believe her because she has lived it and knows what she is talking about, and doesn’t use any factual data to back herself up. In Malanga’s article he analyzes two authors books. One happens to be Ehrenreich and the other is David Shipler, the author of The Working Poor. This article gives a different insight on poverty as not being the people’s fault as everyone normally assumes it is, but the fault of our corrupt government system. The working class could be doing everything the government expects from them liking getting a job and possibly trying to get a higher education, but they could still remain in