The War Against The Poor Instead Of Programs To End Poverty By Herbert J. Gans

In “The War Against the Poor Instead of Programs to End Poverty,” author Herbert J. Gans, a professor at Columbia University. Gans has written many articles and books on the subject of poverty, Gans first clarifies and explains how bad society treats the impoverished, and try to discriminate against different ethnicities. Gans analyzed ways to solve the issues that our legislators face when improving programs for the lowest class. Then, the author finds ways to help the impoverished receive more opportunities that lower unemployment. Gans goes on to mention how people become impoverished. Once people drop into poverty it becomes extremely difficult to return to the middle class. Gans blames society and legislators for making this problem worse. …show more content…
That can negatively affect their image of the poor. The author explores this issue by explaining how our society welcomes lies about the impoverished, and when the facts are given to the public they don’t believe the facts. Gans continues to express that Americans use the lower class as excuses for bad things that happen in the world and the economy. His findings show that the average American think the majority of the impoverished are the “undeserving poor,” because the public thinks low-income families get financial aid without working for it. Gans disproves this misconception by explaining that low-income families have to qualify for the rigorous requirements to continuously receive aid from the government and other organizations. Gans says with the extra support from the public and the government it will not only help solve the poverty problem, but will help minimize misconducts with the law and make communities safer. Gans also goes on to say that time will heal the discrimination and disregard of low-income …show more content…
By reporting lower class citizens rioting, that gets out of hand. Along with the news not showing statistics that would provide awareness of impoverished citizens. Gans reports that low-income citizens are more likely to have encounters with the law, but that does not mean that all low-income citizens are all going to disrupt the law. The author says that criminals can belong to any of the economic and social classes. So long as this happens it will continue to promote the spread of uneasiness among the middle class when it comes to dealing with lower income citizens. Next, Gans discusses how the impoverished can do more to help ease their problem with the middle-class. By having the lower income citizens become more respectful to the public. Until the middle class shows equal respect towards them.Gans explains if this does not happen, it will give the lower class citizens fewer opportunities, finding a job, car, or a house. This also gives the impoverished little to no choice but to break the law just to be