Barbara Ehrenreich's Les Miserable: The Cause Of Poverty

Today, humans across the world are face with the ever growing problem of being poor. Just like in the book Les Miserable, we see a great many of people who are slaves to their job. To be poor was consider a crime and for that everyone was outrage about this. Soon it got to a point where there was no means of getting by or supporting a family. I’ve seen and know people who are facing this trouble today. It’s so significant because most are faced with some type of poverty in life. Poverty has been one the most unique problems the world has been facing.
For years people have been trying to find ways of changing the world for the better so everyone can live poverty free. We are still making strides towards this dream one day, but this
This article talks about how the government started to help the poor and identified the bills and laws that were created. It also explains how the middle and lower classes are in traps. Barbara Ehrenreich explains, “What I discovered is that in many ways, these jobs are a trap: They pay so little that you cannot accumulate even a couple of hundred dollars to help you make the transition to a better-paying job” (Ehrenreich). Many people end up falling and staying with these simple admission occupations. It’s actually more expensive to be poor in today society. Not being able to make rent or due times on property can kill an already unfortunate person wealth. Then taking out loans with a guarantee high interest rate can end up putting people even farther off which tells us minimum wage jobs are solely not aiding. This is what Barbara had to say, “Minimum-wage jobs are physically demanding, have unpredictable schedules, and pay so meagerly that workers can’t save up enough to move on” (Ehrenreich). As I stated earlier the cycle of poverty leads to the criminalization of the