At the Edge of Poverty

David Shipler’s essay “At the Edge of Poverty” describes the poverty in America and that’s what caught my attention. It is explaining the nightmare happening right now. Nightmares like getting low-pay and getting dead-end jobs. There are so many similarities between his essay and present reality of the issues with health care and education. Through a combination of hard facts and moving accounts of hardships last by individuals it fills in the gaps and denounces the many myths of the politically drawn stereotypes of workers who live in poverty in America. The author’s call to action powerfully argues that we must simultaneously address the full range of interrelated problems that confront the poor instead of tackling one issue at a time. It is a compelling essay that will shift the terms and strengthen the debate about social justice in America. As being read it creates an image of the life of poverty. This argued essay states most all of the issues with workers. The style it’s written in tries to show as if the author had experienced the life of poverty. The research is very thorough and the author also extends his thoughts as to where the issues are coming from. For example the author mentions the former president Bush and the decisions he has made to cause more issues. The author is trying to show the poor population of America but, ignores the other population of poor people in other countries which are in a worse situation. One of these countries is India which has a larger population of poverty then average people. As I went on reading it reminded me of being in India. India is one of the many countries who have a large population of poverty. While walking the streets of India there are many children who don’t have any clothes to wear and are working as cleaners. The youngest child I have ever seen work is probably twelve years old. There are not much problems in America with health care and education. America has had brilliant ideas for children who have a...