![]() ![]() ![]() "We meet drifting farmworkers in North Carolina, exploited garment workers in New Hampshire, illegal immigrants trapped in the steaming kitchens of Los Angeles restaurants, addicts who struggle into productive work from the cruel streets of the nation's capital - each life another aspect of a confounding, far-reaching urgent national crises. We encounter them every day, for they do jobs essential to the American economy.". Shipler exposes the interlocking, problems by taking us into the sorrowful, infuriating, courageous lives of the poor - white and black, Asian and Latino, citizens and immigrants. But their version of the American Dream is a nightmare: low paying, dead-end jobs the profound failure of government to improve upon decaying housing, health care, and education the failure of families to break the patterns of child abuse and substance abuse. Shipler makes clear in this study, the invisible poor are engaged in the activity most respected in American ideology - hard, honest work. ![]() ![]() Broken link? let us search Trove, the Wayback Machine, or Google for you. ![]()
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