Working poor

individual/family/group that would require the most advocacy from a health care provider (HCP) seems nearly impossible. Every individual interviewed by David Shipler deserves advocacy in some type of way. The Working Poor by David Shipler is an amazingly written book describing the working poor here in America. As members of society, we become overwhelmed with everything we need to do and forget that there are people living in poverty. Throughout the book, he holds detailed interviews with many…

Raising the Minimum Wage for the Working Poor It’s nearly impossible to turn on the news or read the newspaper without hearing about the ongoing debate over minimum wage. While most Americans agree that persons working full-time should not be living in poverty there is little agreement about what to do about it. Supporters, including the Fight for Fifteen group, argue that larger paychecks to workers will boost the economy, higher pay will equate to harder working employees, and that all…

Working Poor Response “The American Myth has its value. It sets a demanding standard, both for the nation and for every resident. The nation has to strive to make itself the fabled land of opportunity; the resident must strive to use that opportunity” (Shipler p.5). The American myth represents being able to be successful in America regardless of your background as long as you work hard. If you work hard in America you should have the chance to gain upward mobility among social classes. The…

mobility: the ability to improve one’s economic status. The American Dream is becoming harder to attain as the decades pass. In the essay “The Working Poor Are Not Getting By in America,” Aaron Bernstein and Michelle Conlin formally use effective rhetorical techniques to successfully argue that economic mobility is becoming a frequent struggle for many lower-class working Americans to achieve. The first way Bernstein and Conlin created an effective argument was by their technique of using…

In the book The Jungle, Upton Sinclair depicts how the exploitation and impoverishment of the working class contribute to financial struggles. Sinclair displays this idea of the poor working class through Jurgis and his family. When moving to America, Jurgis had the intention of achieving the “American Dream.” The American Dream is known as one who comes to America and becomes very rich. Only two days after his arrival in Chicago, Jurgis is offered a job. Hundreds of people stand outside of…

There is a direct link with neighborhoods that have an alarmingly high poverty rate and sexual assault. We saw evidence of these sexual abuse issues while reading David Shipler’s book, The Working Poor: Invisible in America. Shipler touches base about this issue of sexual abuse specifically in Chapter Six of his book, Sins of the Fathers. He introduces us to a variety of different characters – characters that are survivors of sexual abuse. Each…

in poverty. Reasons being that these individuals might have an illness and are living on disability checks. That they grew up poor and can not get out of the vicious cycle of poverty. Divorce, teen pregnancy, criminal records, and countless other explanations. An excellent example of someone who knows the struggles of poverty is David K. Shipler, who wrote The Working Poor: Invisible in America. After reading his book and two critic reviews, I agree with the critics that Shipler’s commitment to…

impossible to live in America, work a minimum wage job, and make enough money to feed, clothe, and house a family. Ehrenreich reveals the problems of economic issues that the working class faces. A family “. . . earning nearly $40,000 a year, which makes them officially ‘middle class’ . . .” (Ehrenreich 131) should not be living in a poor neighborhood. The block is infested with drug dealers; the dining room ceiling leaks whenever the bathroom above it is used; the toilet can be flushed only…

In The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler, Shiplerbrings up topics that actual people deal with in life. One of the topics being that employers can be biased when it comes to hiring employees or even keeping them. A person’s appearance or their personal issues could cause it to be difficult to get hired. In The Working Poor, Shipler makes the book relative to people, gives examples, and makes people decide if they agree or disagree. Shipler constructs all of his arguments in…

problems that come from social, families, daily lives. So do working families, but these people have more problems, more stress than other people. Their problems come from work, family’s life, money and it also include children. Children in low- income working families have various problems such as: child care, education and the environment. For low-income working families, child care will be a serious problem of parents. They are called “working families” because They are a part of the family…