“Nobody who works hard should be poor in America,” writes Pulitzer Prize winner David Shipler. Clear-headed, rigorous, and compassionate, he journeys deeply into the lives of individual store clerks and factory workers, farm laborers and sweat-shop seamstresses, illegal immigrants in menial jobs and Americans saddled with immense student loans and paltry wages. They are known as the working poor.
They perform labor essential to America’s comfort. They are white and black, Latino and Asian--men and women in small towns and city slums trapped near the poverty line, where the margins are so tight that even minor setbacks can cause devastating chain reactions. Shipler shows how liberals and conservatives are both partly right–that practically every life story contains failure by both the society and the individual. Braced by hard fact and personal testimony, he unravels the forces that confine people in the quagmire of low wages. And unlike most works on poverty, this book also offers compelling portraits of employers struggling against razor-thin profits and competition from abroad. With pointed recommendations for change that challenge Republicans and Democrats alike, The Working Poor stands to make a difference.
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一、写这本书的读后感之前先说一个故事： 某个周末和妻子、儿子去中心书城看书玩耍。期间玩累了，估计小家伙也有点饿了，就在附近的某面包店买了面包，坐在北区大台阶补充一下能量。刚坐下旁边的两个人就走了，留下一杯只喝了1/4的奶茶。接着又来了两个小伙子，看起来...
评分一、写这本书的读后感之前先说一个故事： 某个周末和妻子、儿子去中心书城看书玩耍。期间玩累了，估计小家伙也有点饿了，就在附近的某面包店买了面包，坐在北区大台阶补充一下能量。刚坐下旁边的两个人就走了，留下一杯只喝了1/4的奶茶。接着又来了两个小伙子，看起来...
评分一、写这本书的读后感之前先说一个故事： 某个周末和妻子、儿子去中心书城看书玩耍。期间玩累了，估计小家伙也有点饿了，就在附近的某面包店买了面包，坐在北区大台阶补充一下能量。刚坐下旁边的两个人就走了，留下一杯只喝了1/4的奶茶。接着又来了两个小伙子，看起来...
评分一、写这本书的读后感之前先说一个故事： 某个周末和妻子、儿子去中心书城看书玩耍。期间玩累了，估计小家伙也有点饿了，就在附近的某面包店买了面包，坐在北区大台阶补充一下能量。刚坐下旁边的两个人就走了，留下一杯只喝了1/4的奶茶。接着又来了两个小伙子，看起来...
评分一、写这本书的读后感之前先说一个故事： 某个周末和妻子、儿子去中心书城看书玩耍。期间玩累了，估计小家伙也有点饿了，就在附近的某面包店买了面包，坐在北区大台阶补充一下能量。刚坐下旁边的两个人就走了，留下一杯只喝了1/4的奶茶。接着又来了两个小伙子，看起来...
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囧囧子推荐。纽约时报出身的作者。因为题材太真实看之前请做好心理建设，为了速战速决看了中文版。“贫穷就像流血的伤口，吸引鲨鱼来。“当贫穷的问题和无数随之而来的其他问题连成一张网悬在头顶，只是一般努力是无法冲破的，这张网也会隔离掉其他能帮助到你的人和资源，让你看不到希望。好消息是有许多人在自己的本职工作中是愿意花精力在这群失落的人身上，医生打电话给公司主管说明情况，戒毒所的人关心患者，校长想办法吸引学生家长参与。一本自述的纪实文学胜过类似“贫穷的本质”那样的经济学分析。“每一天都是好日子”，这是我从这群人身上学到的。
评分斷斷續續花了大半年（！）終於看完了。working poor這個狀態總是一環扣一環最終形成的。而解決的方法往往又會陷入政黨之間所謂意識形態之爭。整本書看得我有種揮之不去的難過。
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评分Great book, about the biggest society problem - POOR , I read it with ebook. BTW, Any request for any ebook finding, please visit my home page.
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