Inequality: The Unsympathetic Treatment Of The Poor

The representations of the poor and poverty shape access to the already limited spending on public services and policies that have intensified the dynamics of inequality (Bond 420). The misrepresentation of poverty in certain communities, takes away focus from the fact of decrease in spending in social programs and the ongoing growth of investment in incarceration. The unsympathetic treatment of the poor and the neoliberal indication that poor people are lazy, and if they worked harder they would be able to do well for themselves are attempts to justify the decrease in social services and increase funding to correctional facilities (Bond 420). As for the justification of the addition correctional facilities, that was much easier, governments