D’ARA Townsend
I personally this book is helping
expose the injustice that those in poverty face on a daily basis. For example,
the book mentioned how some want the poor to have to take drug test in order to
receive assistance. This is a great example of how we are quick to try and make
someone prove something; especially the poor. As stated I the reading “The
state’s conservative political culture makes the life of the poor as unpleasant
as possible.” In addition to my previous point the book really helped put
things in to perspective that a lot of the things the government did under out nose
without us knowing. For example, the government pretty much sat and let people go
in to debt by not showing any action when was experiencing a “slowdown” they
encouraged people to take out unaffordable loans instead of regulating banks. I
had no idea this occurred until reading this book. To know the government could
have helped the tons of people who are in a financial crisis is quite shocking
to me. The book is in a way one’s “third eye” when it comes to poverty and how
the government ultimately handles it.
A good test question could be:
Should individuals be required to drug test for government assistance?
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