The War Against the Poor Instead of Programs to End Poverty - Review

The role of the poor in modern society (as an example in American society) is the crucial question for all people. Herbert J. Cans has spent many years to find the crucial reasons why people become the poor and who the poor actually are. Her books and the article “The war against the poor instead of programs to end poverty” are closely connected with these problems. She states that people become poor not only when they do not want to work. Sometimes the structure and the atmosphere in society provoke a person to be the poor. Moreover, the government does not have enough incentives to help the jobless, the poor and the middle class to overcome their problems. I personally believe that being the poor in Russia or not is an own personal decision. In this case I suppose that poor people are people who do not have enough money to buy the essential commodities (like food, a teapot, a winter coat and so on). The transformation that has taken place in our country has a huge impact on people’s attitude to life. Generally, to blame the government, the relatives, the strangers as a cause of own problems is the easiest way. Many people in need forget that he builds their lives. The others can make our life better or worse, can influence our actions, but nobody can make our decisions instead of us. And it the main point. For instance, when a jobless does not want to work at certain working place, he tries to find drawbacks in it and reasons why this working place is bad for him. The talkative colleagues start to be gossips, a stubborn boss start to be an aggressive one, as a whole, the atmosphere starts to be disruptive. No doubt, these reasons are significant, but why they have appeared at certain time. Nobody knows. Sometimes a person desperate to find a job due to he thinks that he will meet the same problems at other working places. If a person does not want to overcome personal money problems, any social programs will be useless. There is an economic model that