Reading Responses: The Progressive Growth Of Poverty In America

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$2 a Day
The $2 a day is a book that was written by Enid and Luke on the progressive growth of poverty in America. The book discusses the various issues that poor people go through in order to survive. She (Enid) gives an example of Madonna a single parent and her daughter who go for days without food but spoiled milk they receive from the anonymous donor. In the book, she points out how many million children suffer from the low wages received by their parents. The welfare reform addressed by the book shows that there has been a spike rise in the number of households with kids exposing incomes of $2 less per head.
It gives various examples of people who live below $2 a day and how the numbers increased several years after. It also addresses the policy signed by Bill Clinton where the poorest person is still affected by this policy in America.
PART A
A labor market that gives low-wages and fails to deliver a livelihood, and the hidden setting of survival strategies that is growing among America's extreme poor are the major discoveries or findings that Edin and Luke. Her book reveals the poverty levels in America that very few believed exists. Edin makes the two findings after a two-decade research on poverty families in Chicago. Her book expounds on the importance of income inequality. She noticed the way many households lived on almost no income. An example is Susan of Chicago who lived in a three-bedroom house with five more people. The low wage labor market is depicted by Devin who has hopes for an upcoming job which pays $8.50 per hour but cumulatively does not help raise the poverty line of the people he lives with.
Others depend on donating their own body part and fluids like Jessica in order to a living. Her family would lack earnings to cater their expenses if she did not donate blood twice a week at Tennessee in a local donation center. Another single-family of a mother and her teenage daughter in Chicago, survived by drinking spoiled milk for days.
PART B
The findings have an importance to the society that living below $2 doesn't specify or discriminate either race or tribe. This is because most of $2 a day poor people are whites. It also depicts that single- mothers are at a high risk of falling into ext...