poverty Poverty in the United States is getting worse each day and not enough is getting done about it. The readings from “Babies and Benefits” by Sheila Holbrook-White, the article on poverty by Michael J. Paquette, and “Keeping Women And Children Last” by Ruth Sidel made me view the issues of poverty in a different way. I never realised what kind of people were living in poverty, and the true reasons why they are there. What amazes me the most is how much these people need help, and how little the government is doing to help them. The government should set up work programs for these people to help them get better jobs and make enough money to survive.
Most millionaires live well below their means. That is precisely why they are millionaires. Most people who earn high incomes are not rich, and they fail to accumulate any lasting wealth. They spend their money as fast as they earn it. In order to accumulate wealth, the authors suggest that people need to play “good offense.” You must budget, budget, and budget.
In this New York society, there are two main wealthy classes. The people from the East Egg come from a background of “old money.” These families have a long line of wealth and education. The people from the West Egg, also where Gatsby lives, are known as the “nouveau riche.” Their wealth has been accumulated in recent years. The people from the East Egg look down upon the West Egg society because of what little knowledge they have about class and money. Since Gatsby has gained his wealth by bootlegging, most people don’t know how to judge him.
In Living wage sure beats welfare, they say William Bole reports that Rev. Doug Miles found that many of those lining up for the food pantry were holding down full time jobs. “They just couldn’t live on what they were making.” (Bole) In an effort to fix this the Rev. Doug Miles pushed for a living wage, far more than the current minimum wage at the time. The minimum wage that welfare reform was expecting people to live off of was in fact not enough to even support the buying of food.
Relocation for hiring two cooks will become costly for the restaurant so not good strategy. So it is better to attract talented candidate through advertisement and some benefit like health insurance, some facility for cook’s family and some other rewards. Overstaff or Understaff: Buffalo Wild Wings must seek to be fully staffed. Overstaff will cause employees of the restaurant to remain idle and the restaurant needs to take steps to reduce head count such as layoff or early retirement plan. Keeping idle employee in employment will be expensive for the restaurant as the restaurant needs to pay salary to those employees even if it does not gain anything from them.
This conflict usually led to dehydration or starvation which led to the depression of losing a loved one. The farm owners exploited farmers in believeing that the job availability in California was significant by mass advertising their need for work and not having enough jobs for everyone migrating to California. Once the Joad family arrived in California, they realized that job availability was hard to come by and even if they found a job, making a living was going to be harder than they thought with the wages offered: “An’ they ain’t much work. An’ wages is comin’ down all a time. I git so goddamn tired jus’ figgerin’ how to eat.” John Steinbeck witnessed the struggles of American people during the Great Depression and wrote about his observations and research in The Grapes of Wrath.
This meant that America had been a wealthy country that made the people could not take the pressure from the Great Depression. White people could not stand the fact that they were as poor as the Negro. Surprisingly, there were even people like his friend, a black man, who ended his life over a financial situation
The Super Rich Are Killing Our Democracy It was foretold by Thomas Jefferson that the downfall of a democracy is the accumulation of wealth by the rich and the lack of money for the poor. This is now happening with the Super Corporations controlling the flow of money and the flow of money controlling our politicians. Barbara Ehrenreich, in her article, “The Trouble With The Super Rich”, talks about: America being divided more and more by money. The upper class is shrinking in size, but not in wealth. Having such a small amount of people possessing such a large amount of the wealth will pull down society.
In some countries, no middle class exists. Only high class and low class, if someone is not rich they are dirt poor. In some third world countries people struggle just to survive. They have to live day to day not knowing if they will have a full meal, much less any scraps to eat. They have to go looking for food by either; looking through dumpsters, beg for the food or scrape up some change, enough to buy a very small portion.
Which means they could not support their families or pay their bills. Although, soldiers did get paid, it was a situation where you had to figure out what if they did stop the pay. WIC and Food Stamp benefits were being threatened by the shut down as well. If WIC ran out of money that would mean a lot of pregnant women, babies and small children would lack a resource they all need. The same with Food Stamps, there are people who need these benefits.