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America's New Working Class Summary

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The short article cut from “America’s New Working Class”, by Kathleen R. Arnold, depicts the failure of the American’s federal welfare system. It seems like mostly Americans agree that the propose of federal welfare programs is to provide economic assistance such as food stamps to people who need it. However, Arnold states that the real propose of welfare programs is to maintain a supply of cheap labor in order to make them to have obedient adaptive function and closely keep watch on those welfare recipients. For example, the bad treatment for parole people will only lead them go back the prison; and for those noncompliance workfare recipients, the bad treatment and poor support will lead them to become homeless and malnourish, which make them become much more poverty. …show more content…

Arnold announced some facts which have already been demonstrating that poverty and joblessness is a result of personal failing is particularly American. And the major reason to indicate this bad result is because the united states’ welfare system is extraordinary undemocratic: outdoor relief is limited and plenty of working positions are coercive which means workers have no choices. Also, general public assumption that poor people are irresponsible and had attitude. Much worse, the federal welfare itself have many problems like cheating and dependency which cause a large amount of paupers won’t get their welfare. All in all, as I could say the cures for these situation is let those people who live in a poverty condition have right to speak up and give them more chance to have a flexible job which means gives them more chances. Also the government should drop the surveillance and political control in order to make those powerlessness worker have their confident and legal

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