According to The Working Poor: Invisible in America, written by former New York Times correspondent and Pulitzer Prize winner David K. Shipler, the low-wage workers are “trapped at the edge of poverty”.
“The man who washes cars does not own one. The clerk who files cancelled checks at the back has $2.02 in her own account. The woman who copyedits medical textbooks has not been to a dentist in a decade,” wrote Shipler. “This is the forgotten American. At the bottom of its working world, millions live in the shadows of prosperity, in the twilight between poverty and well-being.”
According to the book The Working Poor: Invisible in America, Shipler describes the stories of a number of individuals and families. Shipler brakes down the United States lack of gratitude for low-wage workers and the conditions of poverty that they face. …show more content…
They are caught in exhausting struggles,” wrote Shipler. “Their wages do not lift them far enough from poverty to improve their lives, and their lives, in turn, hold them back. Nobody who works hard should be poor in America.”
According to The Working Poor, for many poor working families during tax time, income tax refunds as well as Earned Income Tax Credit give families an additional payment.
“The refunds and subsides are sometimes backed for saving towards a car, a house, an education: but they are often needed immediately for overdue bills and large purchases that can’t be funded from the trickle of wages throughout the year,” wrote Shipler.
According to The Working poor, Immigrant worker who have travel to the United States legally and illegally looking for jobs still find themselves working in sweatshops conditions here in
“The man who washes cars does not own one. The clerk who files cancelled checks at the back has $2.02 in her own account. The woman who copyedits medical textbooks has not been to a dentist in a decade,” wrote Shipler. “This is the forgotten American. At the bottom of its working world, millions live in the shadows of prosperity, in the twilight between poverty and well-being.”
According to the book The Working Poor: Invisible in America, Shipler describes the stories of a number of individuals and families. Shipler brakes down the United States lack of gratitude for low-wage workers and the conditions of poverty that they face. …show more content…
They are caught in exhausting struggles,” wrote Shipler. “Their wages do not lift them far enough from poverty to improve their lives, and their lives, in turn, hold them back. Nobody who works hard should be poor in America.”
According to The Working Poor, for many poor working families during tax time, income tax refunds as well as Earned Income Tax Credit give families an additional payment.
“The refunds and subsides are sometimes backed for saving towards a car, a house, an education: but they are often needed immediately for overdue bills and large purchases that can’t be funded from the trickle of wages throughout the year,” wrote Shipler.
According to The Working poor, Immigrant worker who have travel to the United States legally and illegally looking for jobs still find themselves working in sweatshops conditions here in