The working poor
The Working Poor: Invisible in America David K. Shipler
David K. Shipler is the author of The Working Poor: Invisible in America, also winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his book Arabs and Jews: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land, and a Journalist/ Foreign correspondent for the New York Times. Shipler is a well known author who shows have had plenty of life experiences and education, while studying society and trying to understand the situation of the poor in our country. He writes this remarkable book portraying the lives of fifteen people who are less fortunate than others with low- wage jobs or no job, bad life conditions, issues within family, immigrants, all faceing uncountable struggles with poverty. He began his research in 1997 while interviewing individuals in the lower class of society from all over the country, men and women, all ages, race, and living situation, for about five years. Shipler tries to understand and challenge these situation on all levels with politics and human behavior. No one story can explain all the point of views and encounters Shipler comes across, that is why all of these stories and examples were necessary. While reading their stories is very sad and frustrating at times this is reality told by the people themselves, with no simple way out. These life stories showed us every situation from sexual abuse, addiction, health problems, poor education, young pregnancy and even death some things so shocking we'd never imagine it could be happening around us all the time. Shipler starts off presenting those with low wage issue, in debt and shows how difficult it is for their ends to meet, his best example was Willie and Sarah's story who said that the lack of a better education and priorities in their life kept them at such low level, facing struggles, working poor jobs, not having insurance and all the other necessary
David K. Shipler is the author of The Working Poor: Invisible in America, also winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his book Arabs and Jews: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land, and a Journalist/ Foreign correspondent for the New York Times. Shipler is a well known author who shows have had plenty of life experiences and education, while studying society and trying to understand the situation of the poor in our country. He writes this remarkable book portraying the lives of fifteen people who are less fortunate than others with low- wage jobs or no job, bad life conditions, issues within family, immigrants, all faceing uncountable struggles with poverty. He began his research in 1997 while interviewing individuals in the lower class of society from all over the country, men and women, all ages, race, and living situation, for about five years. Shipler tries to understand and challenge these situation on all levels with politics and human behavior. No one story can explain all the point of views and encounters Shipler comes across, that is why all of these stories and examples were necessary. While reading their stories is very sad and frustrating at times this is reality told by the people themselves, with no simple way out. These life stories showed us every situation from sexual abuse, addiction, health problems, poor education, young pregnancy and even death some things so shocking we'd never imagine it could be happening around us all the time. Shipler starts off presenting those with low wage issue, in debt and shows how difficult it is for their ends to meet, his best example was Willie and Sarah's story who said that the lack of a better education and priorities in their life kept them at such low level, facing struggles, working poor jobs, not having insurance and all the other necessary