The Cycle Of Poverty In The Working Poor By David Shipler

Cycle of Poverty Each day in America people face new challenges weather big or small. The normal everyday challenges include bills, tight schedules, disagreements, and the unforeseen trials that may arise. It is possible for the average person to have a good day or a few good days while feeling worry free. A person who is considered a part of the working poor may never feel worry free. Their challenges hit them hard each day as they struggle with the issues they’ve most likely dealt with their entire lives. Living in poverty does not afford those citizens the luxury of feeling worry free as if they are just anyone else. Sadness sets in at the realization that children of a family in poverty often times feel the same stress and worry

With the issue being so large, there will truly never be an end to it. There are many variations to poverty, it should never be looked at in one particular way. In the book The Working Poor, the author David Shipler addresses how poverty can be due to a lack of parenting, personal mistakes, abuse, a bad start in life, or a combination of other systematical variables. The sources used throughout this research paper represent key connections between the working poor and the programs offered to “help” them. There have been several researched causing factors of poverty and solutions that solve nothing. The outcomes of poverty are most often times, negative and can result in many people never living far above the line of poverty or escaping poverty at all. Living in poverty can become a way of life, it is part of a systematical cycle designed to be never

“Inequality is evident when looking at the earnings of the people at the top compared to the ones in the middle” (Inequality for All). The larger share of the nation’s income goes to the top unfairly, and leaves the rest struggling to get to financial levels they may or may not ever reach. This is the unjust system that exists in the nation which people pretend not to participate in so the poor can be blamed for their own issues. Most people participate in this system often involuntarily or unknowingly through turning their backs, taking larger pay cuts than necessary, and participating heavily in consumerism. Statistics from the video proved that “Seventy percent of the economy is consumer spending” (Inequality for all). While many of the working poor do in fact spend unnecessarily and unwisely it is unfortunate that they cannot enjoy the same pleasures as everyone else. The inequality in America is very apparent and the responsibility should be given to the top one percent and the government. It would be great if every person would step up and help make the nation great again by taking responsibility/accountability, and by creating a culture of justice, equality, and wealth. The video reported that in the year 1978 compared to 2010, the income of the typical worker differed by more than $345,000 (Inequality