The best hope for working poor By ROBYN E. BLUMNER, St. Petersburg Times, FL
'The man who washes cars does not own one. The clerk who files cancelled checks at the bank has $2.02 in her own account. The woman who copy-edits medical textbooks has not been to a dentist in a decade.'
'This is the forgotten America,' David Shipler reminds us in his impressive new book, The Working Poor.
Tens of millions of Americans like these live at the very edge of destitution. They work 40 hours or more a week, sometimes in two or three jobs, but cannot make enough to lift themselves onto a stable rung of the economic ladder.