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Poverty among the working poor in America
Introduction
Reading through Stephanie Land’s book Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay and a Mother's Will
to Survive, gives one the best glimpse of how life feels like for the working poor in the US.
Stephanie offers an honest and detailed memoir of her life as a house cleaner, while still taking
care of her baby and attending college. Her book centers on the health issues facing those
engaging in manual labor, financial challenges of the poor, psychological challenges of low
wage work, and the frustrating nature of the public assistance services, social stigma towards the
poor, and the hand to mouth lifestyle that does not allow the poor to save any amount in their
earnings. This essay discusses the legitimacy of the claims made by Stephanie Land, drawing
facts and information from scholarly publications on the issue of poverty and public assistance
services in the US.
Stephanie Land connected personal experiences of poverty among the working poor in
America
In her memoir, Stephanie demonstrates how hard it is for those living below the poverty
line to survive the ever-expensive US market system. Although she started a family and was
expectant of her first-born baby, Stephanie retells of how her husband used to mistreat her and
often physically abused her due to her unstable economic status. The abusive relationship soon
led to a divorce. As a single parent to the unborn child, Stephanie started facing economic
challenges that led to her living below the poverty line. She recounts of how her pregnancy and
later on a child did not allow her to get formal employment. She states that employers were
always keen to dismiss candidates with children because they could abscond from work any time
their child was sick. As such, her pregnancy status, and single parenthood status was a major
impediment in her financial journey, which led to her engaging in odd jobs as a house cleaner for
survival. She states that such odd jobs are a big disadvantage to the poor because they do not
have employment benefits. As such, employees engage in tiresome work but do not get any
benefits for their hard work.
Stephanie Land argues that although she subscribed to some of the social welfare
programs for the poor in the US, her view is that most of the programs do not add value to the
poor, but rather frustrates them to cause more pain and poverty. She narrates that the Pell grant,
which she subscribed to help her pursue her education at the University of Montana was barely
enough to cater for all her education expenses. She argues that the Pell grant only pays a part of
the tuition fees, leaving the deficit for personal spending.
Stephanie also adds that the food st...
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