The Working Poor

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The paper explains that many of those below the poverty threshold in America are employed in minimum wage jobs. It explains that less than half of those employed in low-paid jobs are offered health insurance by their employers and only one in five has pension coverage. The paper suggests two ways of how this cycle of poverty can be changed. In conclusion, the writer feels that it should be a main priority of the United States government to solve the problem of the working poor.

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"Today the government puts some effort for solving the problem of the poverty in America, but it clearly isn't enough. Numerous suggestions are made for helping the poor to become more upwardly mobile, but, unfortunately, they often remain in the paper stage. Beth Shulman offers "raising the minimum wage to $8.70 and indexing it to inflation". She also suggests that the large industry companies should be given a compensation for arranging the workplaces with decent wages and social security and demands the access to affordable health care for the low-waged workers and their children. What is also important, in her opinion, is that the workers should get some time off to take care about the old parents or sick children, not fearing they'll lose their jobs."

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