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    The Working Poor

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    The Working Poor travels into the forgotten America. It is a book about people and places that most us have never thought about. We have our debates about these people‚ their lifestyles‚ how they raise their children and where they work but we don’t really know them and for the most part don’t care. How many of us notice "the man who washes cars but does not own one‚ the clerk who files cancelled checks at the bank but has $2.02 in her own account or the woman who copyedits medical textbooks but

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    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

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    people out there that are working poor and on the poverty that is happening around our country. Introduction In our society many people do not understand how people are in poverty. They do not understand what is meant by working poor‚ people believe as long as their working so how can they be poor. Statistics show that in 2001‚ there were 653‚ 300 working poor individuals in Canada‚ and 1.5 million that are living in a working poor family. The people who are working poor have many jobs but their

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    Life for the poor in Elizabethan England was very harsh.  Unemployment and rapid price inflation increased causing many villagers to leave their homes and come to the towns to look for work. However‚ they often could not find employment and ended up begging in the streets. Elizabethan Poor Laws‚ enacted in 1601‚ were incredibly beneficial in uniting the community to provide care and nurture for the qualifying less fortunate. These laws set a critical foundation for Britain’s welfare system and established

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    The article examines the relationships between the black working poor and the black middle class. The black middle class is defined as being fragmented‚ comprised of an array of incomes‚ professions‚ and educational levels. The article also states that black middle class experiences economic shifts that move back and forth between blue-collar and white-collar income levels and occupations. (Shawn A. Ginwright 2002) The black middle class experienced dramatic growth in the post civil-rights era. This

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    why the New Poor Law Amendment Act (1834) was so controversial. There were many arguments raised about the poor law amendment act of 1834‚ this Act was thought to be the most contentious piece of legislation passed during the era of the Whig’s. At the time‚ it was a lot about saving money‚ the upper class did not want to pay towards the poor law‚ as they believed they were lazy and unworthy. The taxpayers‚ and ratepayers believed it to be wrong they should be paying to help the poor. The workhouse

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    Was the New Poor Law successful? There were many advantages of the New Poor Law‚ including a decrease in cost of poor relief‚ Education for children who lived within poor families and more able-bodied poor people working for their money. The Decrease in cost of poor relief meant that less people were willing to claim poor relief‚ as it was a lot less glamorous than it used to be. Less money was spent on the quality of food and housing within the workhouses‚ which meant that people held it in

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    attitudes towards the poor in Europe from 1450-1700. Many people will have different attitudes but I will narrow it down to the Royals who tend to have negative attitudes‚ the Church authorities who have positive attitudes and the common folk‚ and show their views and responses. Most of the negatives attitudes come from people of high government positions. One says that “Idleness is harmful to the public good and should not be tolerated. Idlers should not be considered as poor. This person also believes

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    daughter was doing. I would also ask if any f her kids are working and helping her out with expenses. Also if she got a raise at her job or not. 4. I believe that many factors contribute and explain why many people live in poverty. The one however that I believe best explains why many people live in poverty is structural. Society is divided into two major part‚ those who are rich and continue to get rich‚ and those who are poor and continue to be poor. The gap between those who are wealthy and those who

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    miscellaneous items solely from the money she earned in these jobs. She found out how hard it is to live when your income is somewhere in the seven to eight dollar an hour level‚ which is about where the poverty level currently stands. She saw how working at a low class job changed her thinking‚ her health‚ and her sense of security‚ as she sometimes found herself on the brink of homelessness or without adequate transportation. Her purpose in “Nickel and Dimed” is to explain her experience to her readers

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