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The working poor : invisible in America by David K. Shipler is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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__“Most of the people I write about in this book do not have the luxury of rage. They are caught in exhausting struggles. Their wages do not lift them far enough from poverty to improve their lives, and their lives, in turn, hold them back. The term by which they are usually described, ‘working poor,’ should be an oxymoron. Nobody who works hard should be poor in America.” —from the Introduction__From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning__Arab and Jew,__a new book that presents a searing, intimate portrait of working American families struggling against insurmountable odds to escape poverty.As David K. Shipler makes clear in this powerful, humane study, the invisible poor are engaged in the activity most respected in American ideology—hard, honest work. 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 exposes the interlocking problems by taking us into the sorrowful, infuriating, courageous lives of the poor—white and black, Asian and Latino, citizens and immig
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- David K. Shipler
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780375408908
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Science, Finance, Political Science
- Rating
- 4.02 / 5 (131 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14