In the article, “On Turning Poverty into on American Crime” by Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbara explains many issues of the struggle of low-wage issue including poverty. She had many problems with the disagreement that was wrong. Barbara explains that she wanted four years ago to reduce poverty making sure people won’t become poor/or homeless as well for employment that minimum wage will surely increase and for criminals to be treated as equally as other citizens should, she also mentioned police will arrested or assume that their violent just by their appearance. She wanted many citizens to have better wage and working condition (para ). Poverty was a huge common outcome through her entire blog, everything added up to poverty, with a few other citizens’ stories.
By becoming a part of the working class, she was able to understand the situations and emotions of her colleagues. Rather than analyzing the economically burdened, she empathizes with them to feel what it is truly like to live on a low income. She describes not only the financial struggle of working in a low paid job, she endures the physical and emotional impacts of the work. During her maid work, Ehrenreich recognized the lack of self-worth that the maids felt because she felt it herself. “We’re just maids .”
As a reader reads Barbara Ehrenreich’s book Nickel and Dimed on (Not) Getting by in America, they get an insight on what it is like to live a low income life. Ehrenreich proposes the argument in the introduction that poverty is a serious matter and just because one has a job does not mean they are not considered poor. She wants to persuade us to realize that American is not the land of opportunity as promised and portrayed and there are regular people who are struggling to live a comfortable life. Throughout her book she mentions her experiences with living on minimum wage, the hiring process, and how she felt being put in that position. After reading Ehrenreich’s book I am thoroughly persuaded.
Furthermore, she addresses a common misconception among Americans, that those living in poverty are not hard working people,
In “Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Will to Survive,” a memoir by Stephanie Land, the author depicts her experience as a single mother struggling and surviving in poverty. It is a heartbreaking look inside a life that is beaten down by stereotypes, stress, hunger, and at times seems inescapable. Stephanie is an ambitious young woman, ready to go to college and live out her dreams when the stick turns blue and her life is turned upside down. The story follows her journey through single motherhood and tells a tale that capitalist America would rather keep quiet. There are many different protective and risk factors that influence Stephanie and Mia’s life together.
Maria Shriver offers what working women need, to be successful in today economy. She shows how the economy has failed women and how living in poverty has increased over the years for women. This book holds a collection of research, articles and data that shows how we have failed women in poverty. The author also goes into detail showing the government has failed but taking fund away from much needed programs for women in poverty.
Argumentative Text Essay In the book Nickel and Dimed, written by Barbara Ehrenreich, the author argues how challenging it is to live in a life of poverty. To prove to herself as well as others that this statement is accurate, she makes the decision to experience this lifestyle firsthand by taking low-wage jobs and recording the results. Ehrenreich took on jobs including a maid service, waitressing, and assisting the nursing home to make enough money for a place to sleep and food to eat. The work’s central argument is the fact that minimum and low wage workers face a myriad of difficulties in getting by in America; they receive very low pay, harsh treatments from their employers, and the inability to have an actual life.
Criminal Homeless Imagine yourself without a job and receiving a final note from your bank stating that you only have a week to dislodge. In consequence, you become homeless as a bug of society and if you sleep in any bench or under a bridge, you will end up in jail. Many people have been suffering such cruel reality due to their poverty. Barbara Ehrenreich, a political activist and author in her essay “Is it Now a Crime Being Poor?” discusses the problems of the US correctional system about the treat of homeless people. She explains how they are sent to jails for minor crimes.
Capitalism and Poverty: Capitalism is the dominant vision of what shapes our society. It is a system that is almost made for some and those opposing the system are often seen as deviant. In Racialized Haunting by Lisa Cacho, talks about how a person’s death because they were “deviant”. “Even if we had attempted to circumvent the devaluing processes of race and gender by citing other readily recognizable signs and signifiers of value, such as legality, heteronormativity, American citizenship, higher education, affluence, morality, and respectability, we still would not have had evidence to narrate him as a productive, worthy, and responsible citizen.” (26 Cacho) Neoliberalism: Ronald Reagan brought this idea into place in the 1980s tying in
This same issue is also portrayed in a documentary called “Made in L.A.”, in which women workers in garment industry had to work 10 to 14 hours a day, often denied them to eat, and using restrooms, and they had to contend with unpaid wages and overtime. In both the article and the documentary women workers had to struggle for basic economic justice. In the documentary, Maria was fighting due to working conditions, a meager salary, and domestic abuse that left her struggling for her children’s future. Maura was fighting to support her children who were back in El-Salvador. In the article, women in Cambodia were actually fighting for their unborn child because when they become visibly pregnant they were either fired or forced to have an abortion.
My third book review discussion was about the book Why Culture Counts: Teaching Children of Poverty by Donna Tileston and Sandra Darling. I chose this book because I teach in a school where more than 70% of the students qualify for free or reduced lunch. In my opinion, this is a must read book for anyone in a teacher prep program. I really enjoyed the way the author not only described the differences in how children of poverty and other cultures learned, but also why they learn the way they do. She goes in depth about the psychological and cognitive aspects of learning.
Poverty is affecting billions of people around our world and the number is growing with each day. Many people think they can avoid the effects of poverty, but it is something that affects all of our daily lives. Many people see poverty as a person who lacks money, although this is true poverty is caused by many more things than being without money. Just the fact that one in two children live in poverty can help people see clearly the impact it has on our world. Poverty truly does influence the type of care and treatment a person will receive when they need it.
The Truth About Poverty “Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit” this quote was said by Mahatma Gandhi and it relates so well with this article “It is Expensive To Be Poor”, answer the question yourself, Is it expensive to be poor? This article is titled like that to get the audience's attention early and have them thinking ahead of reading. The author Barbara Ehrenreich is building a pre thought when she does this which helps support her claim. “It is Expensive To Be Poor” by Barbara Ehrenreich is an article posted on “The atlantic” “which is where you can find your current news and analysis on politics, business, culture, and technology”. Knowing what “The Atlantic” offers for readers this gives Ehrenreich a detailed look at who she is writing to.
In the passage “What is poverty?”, the author Jo Goodwin Parker, describes a variety of things that she considers to portray the poverty in which she lives in. She seems to do this through her use of first-person point of view to deliver a view of poverty created by a focused use of rhetorical questions, metaphors, imagery, and repetition to fill her audience with a sense of empathy towards the poor. The author’s use of first person point of view creates the effect of knowing exactly what she is feeling. “The baby and I suffered on. I have to decide every day if I can bear to put my cracked hands into the cold water and strong soap.”
Inefficient policies all around the world and especially in our country are contributing to problems in the society. And the biggest problem which the world faces today is the problem of “Poverty” and “Inequality”. It is hard for one to determine whether poverty causes inequality or is it the other way around because both these problems are interrelated. Poverty is something which is caused due to transferring wealth in to the hands of a specific group and the unjust policies of the government. And inequality is discriminating a person in all spheres of life which gives a rise to sense of deprivation.
