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Article: Shipler, David. The Working Poor: Invisible in America.(Book Review)
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- International Social Science Review
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- September 22, 2005
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Shipler, David. The Working Poor: Invisible in America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. iv + 300 pp. Cloth, $25.00.
David Shipler's The Working Poor is a journalistic account of those struggling to survive in the United States in the wake of the federal welfare-reform mandates of 1996. Shipler contends that many in the United States have been left behind as a result of these provisions, and his work here focuses specifically on the employed who have been left behind. As this has occurred during a time of a supposedly burgeoning American prosperity, Shipler is of the belief that the situation is (or should be) a disgrace to all Americans.
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