David K. Shipler's The Working Poor: Invisible In America

In the book “The Working Poor: Invisible in America” the author David K. Shipler discusses barriers and biases toward employability an example would be the appearance of Caroline in chapter 2. People are discriminated against because of their handicaps they couldn’t prevent and that keeps them from being hired or promoted even if they are hard workers. In the second paragraph the character that is talked about the most is Caroline, a woman who lost her teeth because of her economic state and inability to go to the dentist. She struggles to get by on low paying jobs while raising a daughter as a single mother. Her lack of teeth held her back from being hire and promoted. She had opportunities given to her but taken by someone else, an example would be when “Wal-Mart considered her for customer service manager and promoted someone else, someone with
When a child is not properly taken care of they can pick up bad habits. A child that isn’t thought properly will most likely fail economically in the future. They won’t just fail because of bad habits they pick up but also because of the corrosive relationship that uninterested students and unequipped teachers have. They will not be able to do well in school and feel as though a good education is too far for them to reach. Children that grow up in poverty are missing too much and it leads to a cycle that continues generations of impoverished people that will have impoverished children. As Leslie Lenkowsky wrote in her review of Shipler’s book “Still, he is convinced that the key fact about the working poor is their lack of income, which gives them and their children less room for error in everything they do. "Without the buffers of family affluence, achievement, and ambition," he writes, "a child is dangerously exposed." Children in poor families don’t have much room for error if they want to leave their poverty