The Working Poor : Invisible in America (Paperback)

from Dreesie

This book is nearly 10 years old now, so parts are certainly a little out of date (especially the section on healthcare in the final chapter). For the most part, though, what is most depressing is how little things have changed. Whether the poor are native born or immigrant, white, black, Asian, ...

from speedy74

Shipler's well researched analysis of the working poor prompted feelings of anger and futility as I contemplated how some of these experiences could happen in one of the world's richest industrial nations. His investigative journalism shows the reader how precariously many of our working class li...

from etxgardener

I know plenty of peopple who have worked low-paying part-time jobs just for a store discount or for extra "walking around" money. However, working these kinds of minimum wage jobs as one's only income is another story all together. This book reports with devastating detail, mostly through case st...

from Bricker

Very insightful and familiar. Free of judgement and more observational than I had expected, the biggest idea that is presented early on, is that poverty or struggle isn't normally based on one thing, but a collection of events...some chicken/egg, but still a different way of thinking.

from sammii507

This is a powerful book. It's not pretty or easy...in fact at times it had me nearly in tears. It does a very good job at illustratinf the hardship that the working poor face, the lack of options they are given, and the cold cruelty that they face from those who think they are better because they...