We Need Poor People
Sad but true, we need poor people
There are many books out giving solutions and theories as to how to go about putting an end to poverty in the United States. Books like Senator and presidential candidate John Edward's Ending Poverty in America: How to restore the American Dream, academic economist Jeffrey Sachs's The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time and Robin Marris's Ending Poverty are unproven, unimpressive and unrealistic dreams of how our society should go about eliminating poverty. We need poor people in our society to maintain a solid, functioning economy on local, state and federal levels.
Firstly, as stated by Herbert Gans, we need poor people to do the physically dirty or dangerous, temporary, dead end and underpaid, undignified and menial jobs. Society can fill these jobs by paying qualified professionals higher wages or it can force people who have no other choice but to do these dirty jobs at low wages. Poverty functions to provide a low-wage......
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