... to truths that I did not know before reading this book. The author of this book, Kevin Phillips, did a good job that put a lot of effort into this novel, The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath. He blended his ideas as well as an abundant amount of facts in the book. The topics that were touched upon alludes to these current ... held office to two previous Republican heydays, the 1920s and the Gilded Age of the late 19th century. I was excited to find this book based on the title and book description, mainly because I felt I was going to...

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... Card had thoroughly researched the topic of poverty and inequality. The book is well written and offers many alternate sources of information. This read was very helpful to me because Card discussed another point of view that I had not considered and that is outside of the governments lack of support, impoverished people are stuck ... The report tracks income changes due to poverty throughout the country. The figures report that the entire country is affected by the increase of poverty regardless of their race. Hellmann uses this report to show data affects how funds and assistance are al...

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... blames the problem squarely on our antiquated school system. Not only does that system only prepare students to get a good job where one works for the boss, government and the bank for the rest of one's life, but the system is also taught at home. Kiyosaki describes his childhood when he first learned there was ... another way to be taught which would let him become rich by making money work for him instead. His own father was of the old school, a teacher who had a great education and yet was poor. His friend Mike had a rich father, though, who owned several businesses and ... they raked...

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... We give them clothes, food, and housing. I understand as a rich nation we should help out some of the less fortunate people in the world, but what about the poor people of America. In this book, Ehrenreich, explores what it is like to work for very low wages in America. She learns how it is ... a very hard job, physically and mentally, on the person struggling to make ends meet. In 1999 and 2000, Ehrenreich ... this could lead to many problems such as depression, suicide, and nervous breakdowns. Ehrenreich learns from her fellow co-workers how to handle the stresses of the job. Ehrenrec...

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... in her work place among unskilled laborers. This first person approach was the best possible way for a journalist to write a book. She had her own insight and opinion of everything that went on. This first person approach also limited her by not allowing her to see everything from the boss's standpoint ... the unskilled labor force or for even that matter the people who find themselves on the lower-level of today's current society. I learned long before this book that you treat people with a certain level of respect no matter what their position or title is. In the community I grew up in...

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... in her work place among unskilled laborers. This first person approach was the best possible way for a journalist to write a book. She had her own insight and opinion of everything that went on. This first person approach also limited her by not allowing her to see everything from the boss's standpoint ... the unskilled labor force or for even that matter the people who find themselves on the lower-level of today's current society. I learned long before this book that you treat people with a certain level of respect no matter what their position or title is. In the community I grew up in...

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... , the physical damage as well as spiritual damage. While working as a maid, Ehrenreich saw that many of her co-workers had physical problems because they had worked as maids for many years. While on the job as a maid, Ehrenreich had to scrub " hard-stone floors [without] knee pads" the ... company she worked for did not have them (50). Although she did not stay on the job for long, other people had experienced that job for a long time. The fact that they have to kneel to clean someone's hard floor gives the impression that those people experience ... This reform just made more jobs for ...

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... Angela had two more children that lived, but the young twins died. Malachy was an alcoholic who rarely held a job and spent his wages at the pub instead of on his family. They were forced to beg for food and other necessities because relatives were cruel and selfish. This ... strength and courage. He eventually raises enough money to go to America and break free from his depressing childhood. In my opinion, the theme of this book is that no matter how bad things seem to be, anyone can survive and become successful through perseverance and determination. For example, Frank grew ... job...

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... of labor, discrimination and corruption, poverty took over their lives. In the book, the author clearly describes the dangerous and unsanitary working conditions that employees had to deal with, and the cruelty that was given to workers with cheap labor and long hours without having any benefits given to the employees. Many workers had accidents in the factories and were left without a job ... three months. In those three months Jugis was not receiving any income, no medical aid for his injury and had no guarantee of having a job after he was fully recover since the employer blamed the ...

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... not following his dreams, he is very neutral. He is working in a kitchen instead of trying to become a professional basketball player. He's twenty, but he isn't attending an art school to become a comic book artist. We see excuses instead of action from Nemesio. When the doctor asks him what his reasoning is behind not going to ... rockier by the unfair burden of urban poverty" (525)." She then asks him if he has taken the SAT. She says that telling him to take the SAT would be the best thing to recommend for his long term health. She makes him a deal: if he buys an SAT review book, she ...

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... experiences he tries to explain the struggles of street life from a first hand point of view. The biggest struggles represented in the book are due to racism, poverty, and crime. The majority of the people living in El Barrio are Puerto Rican; therefore we witness many instances of discrimination throughout In Search of Respect. In the "Goin" Legit" chapter of the book we see the discrimination that is ... education that is obtainable to suburbanites. Hence, they are denied well paying jobs not only because of their race but because of their lack of education. Therefore in order to obta...

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... trip to prostitution which, sadly enough, seems to be the only way for Firdaus to gain some sort of independence. Firdaus grew up in a very hypocrite society without any support. Instead of having transformed her into a victim of society, all of her negative experiences have turned her into an aggresor willing to stand up and fight for her rights. ... This book is the insight of a woman who sticks to the only means of survival she knows. Fridaus is the minority in the community, she is the type of person you step on when you walk down the street and don't ask if they are ... and giving ...

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... is set in the twenties; however, Tillie Olsen describes this book as "a novel of the 1930's" because this prose is a forum to address political and social conditions of the thirties. Further, the work is semi-autobiographical about working class family struggles and economic woes of the twenties, which culminate into the Depression of the thirties. Yonnondio is a complex text about Olsen's family ... were helpless in a capitalistic system that denied them any voice; while, squashing their hopes for their share of the American Dream. Yonnondio goes beyond telling one family's story of th...

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... are left unattended and end up getting into trouble. Most of these problems could be solved by a wage that realistically adjusts with the cost of living. Holly Skylar who coauthored the book "Raise the floor: Wages and policies that work for all of us" writes that had wages kept up with productivity since ... to business. Most employees working for under $10 an hour are not motivated, unreliable and non productive. They will do the minimum required to keep the job until they can find a better one. One the other hand, if the wage is $12 an hour and above, I see a distinct change. The ... ...

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... how they would receive more benefits in the 1970's if the accepted welfare rather than work, then in the 1960's. This was labeled as an incentive to fail. This stage of the book also explains why economic growth in the 1970's was losing steam. "One reason that the economic growth in the 1970's lost its power to reduce poverty was that many ... of the poor were without jobs. If one has no job, it makes no difference how much the economy grows, poverty remains." The government was able to make a stronger Labor Department to jump ... great experience." In 1965 the social scientists began ...

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... throw old furniture into the front yard. It's a choice, and it's a choice that shows why they live in poverty. Even if we threw millions of dollars toward solving poverty, we would still end up with uneducated and lazy people. I feel the only way to start solving poverty is to educate people ... single mothers collect welfare, the middle-class is in an uproar and demands that its hard earned money not be used to support the poor choices of others. When single mothers on welfare are forced to return to work and place their children in daycare, the middle class celebrates the success that ...

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... despair. A bigger or more volatile issue is presented in chapter 8 when Jane Adams brings up poverty in America. She says that the lack of attention pointed towards helping the poor by the city and the government almost made it seem as if poverty didn't even exist. Jane says, ... "The poor invariably accused poverty itself of their destruction." Jane also becomes astonished with the kindness poor people show to each other. They were not fighting or stealing from each ... the many backdrops of society became present to the eye of the public. Labor Unions were formed, Societies promoting ...

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... defeat world hunger? Many people believe the approach charitable groups take towards hunger is a short-term solution. Therefore, troubles such as poverty, inequality and hunger are all results of structural problems and cannot be fixed by one time charitable help. The media only displays and favors charitable approaches towards hunger, which is a short-term resolution. Consumer Hunger Part ... became low, their was high unemployment and low paying part-time job, overall high coasts, poor-equality in housing (making people spend at least 50% of their income on shelter), inadequate support...

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