![]() ![]() Shipler BOOK CRITIQUE FOR CLASS ASSIGNMENT: In 1997, while many Americans appeared to be enjoying the benefits of a soaring economy, author David K. It is a book that stands to make a difference. The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. This impassioned book not only dissects the problems, but makes pointed, informed recommendations for change. ![]() We encounter them every day, for they do jobs essential to the American economy. Shipler exposes the interlocking problems by taking us into the sorrowful, infuriating, courageous lives of the poor-white and black, Asian and Latino, citizens and immigrants. But their version of the American Dream is a nightmare: low-paying, dead-end jobs the profound failure of government to improve upon decaying housing, health care, and education the failure of families to break the patterns of child abuse and substance abuse. Shipler makes clear in this powerful, humane study, the invisible poor are engaged in the activity most respected in American ideology-hard, honest work. Shipler (born December 3, 1942) is an American author and journalist. "This is clearly one of those seminal books that every American should read and read now." - The New York Times Book ReviewĪs David K. From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Arab and Jew, an intimate portrait unfolds of working American families struggling against insurmountable odds to escape poverty. ![]()
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