The Working Poor: Invisible in America
by David K. Shipler · 12 Nov 2008 · 407pp · 136,138 words
Acclaim for David K. Shipler’s THE WORKING POOR Winner of the Myers Outstanding Book Award Chosen as a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post Book World,
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it as an accurate description of the inevitable costs of free market capitalism.” —Los Angeles Times “Moving and meticulous.… Unlike other sympathetic chroniclers of the working poor, he doesn’t demonize their employers.” —The Baltimore Sun “Masterly… a series of memorable portraits.” —The Hartford Courant “This urgent new book obliterates the notion
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ability to see people and more important to depict them, not as statistics or symbols of injustice, but as human beings.” —The Miami Herald “The Working Poor will make any relatively well-off reader look at the struggles of the poor differently.… [It] deserves a place on the American bookshelf next to
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of diatribes, looking at human frailty and a spectrum of bosses and social services. With moving under statement, he develops a compassionate picture of the working poor.” —The Star-Ledger (Newark) “A work of stunning scope and clarity.… He brings the reader close enough to the challenges faced every day by his
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to make them feel it when the floor inevitably drops out beneath them.” —The Buffalo News “The scope and importance of David Shipler’s The Working Poor brings to mind Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle.” —Deseret News (Salt Lake City) “A powerful exposé that builds from page to page, from one grim
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and strike a blow for economic justice.” —Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed “There is no better book on poverty in America than The Working Poor because it describes in vivid detail the sort of day to day problems and the cycles that these folks are involved in … really thought-provoking
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in a very important way.” —Senator John Edwards David K. Shipler THE WORKING POOR David K. Shipler worked for The New York Times from 1966 to 1988, reporting from New York, Saigon, Moscow, and Jerusalem before serving as chief
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them far enough from poverty to improve their lives, and their lives, in turn, hold them back. The term by which they are usually described, “working poor,” should be an oxymoron. Nobody who works hard should be poor in America. In 1997, as the country’s prosperity soared, I set out to
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as imprecisely as it should be used, to suggest the lowest stratum of economic attainment, with all of its accompanying problems. No discussion of the working poor is adequate without a discussion of their employers, so they also appear in these pages—entrepreneurs and managers who profit from cheap labor or who
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journey encounters teachers, physicians, and other professionals who try to make a difference. Although I have not sought to be demographically representative, most of the working poor in this book are women, as are most of them in the country at large. Unmarried with children, they are frequently burdened with low incomes
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added up all of her individual problems, the whole would be equal to more than the sum of its parts. Consequently, most issues confronting the working poor are laced into most chapters of this book, even while each chapter throws a spotlight on one or another element of deprivation. In the chapter
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’s fees of $150, and $60 in court costs. The total charge on the $300 loan: $1,310.7 Con artists have also enticed the working poor with false promises of outright grants from foundations; all people have to do, the mailings promise, is pay $19.95 to $49.95 for a
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about the waiting period, but her suspicions were understandable. At the confluence of private industry and government, American society devises numerous techniques of separating the working poor from their meager cash. State lotteries do a booming business at the corner stores in poor parts of town as people pray for the right
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. “Money saved for bills goes for sodas, cigarettes. They all have pets.” By contrast, the families she admired were those often seen by the principal: working poor parents too proud to use the free lunches for which their children qualified. “They will pack a good, nutritious lunch for their kids,” the principal
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from that. Wal-Mart considered her for customer service manager and then promoted someone else, someone with teeth. Caroline’s was the face of the working poor, marked by a poverty-generated handicap more obvious than most deficiencies but no different, really, from the less visible deficits that reflect and reinforce destitution
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drink at all during pregnancy.” Class, culture, and language place barriers between patients and doctors. Looking up from the lack of wealth and education, many working poor people see an impersonal establishment of white coats and glistening instruments, of incomprehensible vocabulary and condescension. For blacks in particular, anxieties are sharpened by memories
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leads to poverty. In a tight housing market with high rents, low incomes, and inadequate government assistance, the goal of improving conditions often means getting working poor families the subsidies they have been illegally denied. That occupies the lawyers and social workers in the pediatrics department, which treats many children who should
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not enough money or housing in the program, and the waiting lists are long in most areas. With rising wealth driving up housing costs, the working poor have been left practically helpless, unable to get into the market and unserved by underfunded federal and state housing programs. The system is also plagued
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damaging welfare cheats are the caseworkers and other officials who contrive to discourage or reject perfectly eligible families. These are the people who ask a working poor mother a few perfunctory questions at the reception desk, then illegally refuse to give her an application form, despite the law’s provision that anyone
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toward graduation or less, they lose their imaginations about what can be. When I visited schools and said I was doing a book on the working poor, teachers often had a wry response: “Oh, you can write about me.” Because the United States funds its schools largely through local property taxes, disparities
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family. The model is so rare that it is no model at all, just an exception that highlights the problems for the vast numbers of working poor who can’t line up every single factor in their favor. Vietnamese, Chinese, Koreans, and other Asians are often stereotyped as brilliantly hardworking and successful
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holistic remedies are vital. So, gateways to addressing a family’s range of handicaps are needed, and they are best established at intersections through which working poor families are likely to travel. Dr. Barry Zuckerman at the Boston Medical Center has shown how it can be done there, with social workers and
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of low income. Voting is the basic building block of democratic government, and government is the instrument best positioned to make a difference to the working poor. No key sector of this free-enterprise system, whether business or charity, escapes the pervasive influence wielded by government through tax policy, regulation, wage requirements
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not carried us even close to that twilight region where our competence fades. The same can be said of every burden that weighs on the working poor. We know how to promote home ownership and make decent apartments affordable, but we don’t do enough of it. We know a great deal
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marriage, dictate local education policies, discourage child-bearing by mothers on welfare, and subsidize religious institutions’ moralistic efforts to combat indigence. The troubles of the working poor will not be relieved by this ideological debate. Political argument is vital for democracy, but solutions must finally transcend the familiar disagreements. The political opponents
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’s story and left out ameliorating details. It was a clear case of not letting facts get in the way of an ideology. After The Working Poor was published, O’reilly invited me on the show and wanted to find Kevin as well. Kevin had moved, and I hadn’t been able
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two previously appeared in The New York Times Magazine. The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows: Shipler, David K. [date] The working poor: Invisible in America / David K. Shipler.—ist ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Poor—United States. 2. Working class—United States—Economic
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