The Working Poor
I just finished reading the book, The Working Poor, that I found on my roomie's bookshelf. Not sure why I picked it up or why she really had it, but it was an interesting book. Took me almost a year of never getting past the first 100 pages, but I made the breakthru around page 190 and finished it in 2 days.
The book talks about the cycles of how the lower class repeat their situation generation after generation and why even with the resources in place it doesn't also do the good it was intended. It was eye opening to me because I come from the world of if you work hard enough, good things will happen. So far it has been true, so to see the adversity others have faced and worked against to no avail is eye opening.
It was oddly timed with me finishing it the same day the US Congress passes the Universal Health Care bill where everybody thinks that will solve a lot of the problems in our economy, but like all things that are suppose to help have a lot of obstacles in its way.