Shipler

The Working Poor by David K Shipler is a good compliment to Nickled and Dimed, too.

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Shipler strives to put an upbeat spin on what he has found and concludes with a prayer that whites will become better listeners and that blacks will help them -- even though the book leaves little reason to believe that will happen.

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SOMETHING I MISSED: Cuffy finds another Shipler op-ed using a word that doesn't need to be in the Code Word manual.

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Shipler's book has much the same task as Ehrenreich's, but instead of building a fictional life in order to have "working poor experiences" himself, Shipler extensively interviews a bunch of working poor families and mixes their first-person stories with an academic analysis of the life of the American working poor.

Blog Action Day: The Poverty Book List (What if No One's Watching?) 2008

Shipler's book has much the same task as Ehrenreich's, but instead of building a fictional life in order to have "working poor experiences" himself, Shipler extensively interviews a bunch of working poor families and mixes their first-person stories with an academic analysis of the life of the American working poor.

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In his travels, Shipler encounters white parents who see nothing wrong in a Cub Scout leader calling a child "" blackie '' and blacks too uncaring to attend the funeral of Guatemalan neighbors killed by a black gunman.

Why We Can't Get Along 2008

Moyers quotes Jared Diamond, the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, David Shipler, Mark Shields, and his own "Listening to America" series, to make his many intertwined points.

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Shipler shows two things: (1) how manifestly inaccurate that is, i.e., hard work and wise decisions can still be steamrollered by bad luck, and (2) how very small choices have enormous consequences.

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Shipler shows two things: (1) how manifestly inaccurate that is, i.e., hard work and wise decisions can still be steamrollered by bad luck, and (2) how very small choices have enormous consequences.

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In The Working Poor Shipler tells many stories, some of which are encouraging.

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