We’re taught to associate poverty with joblessness, but that’s not reality. They’re the ones our government now calls “essential workers,” even though they’ve never been treated like it.īefore the pandemic started and before I first read this book, I never considered the fact that you could be working and still be poor. The working poor are people we see everyday. If you want an easy answer to the question “who are the working poor?” then just look around. In America, these workers are told that all their hard work will lead them to accomplish “the American dream.” But in reality, their hard work has led them to dead-end jobs with such low pay that they’re unable to properly feed their families or secure safe housing. The working poor, also known as the invisible poor, are the people engaged in America’s most respected activity-hard, honest work. In this national bestseller, Shipler gives his readers an intimate look into the lives of working American families who are desperately struggling to escape poverty. Shipler, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former New York Times foreign correspondent. After taking part in Covenant House’s annual Sleep Out to end youth homelessness, I was recently inspired to reread The Working Poor: Invisible in America.
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