Barbara Ehrenreich's self evaluation emphasizes that wages are too low and the cost of living is extremely high. A job will not necessarily get a person out of poverty. Many of the poor work two or more jobs and still find it difficult to live comfortably.Ehrenreich's feels that America looks down on those who are forced to get on welfare and are seen as lazy people who need to get it together. She believes America should be ashamed, because many of those who are on welfare work extremely hard and do the the jobs that many would not dare do but they are forced to get on welfare because the cost f living is simply too high.Overall, through out her experiment she feels that she did exceptionally well. She made a few mistakes but for the most part her job performance was good.
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Barbara states that America should be ashamed for looking down on those who are on welfare?Do you believe that many people look down on welfare recipients and see them as lazy and people who need to get it together?
After evaluating herself Barbara believes that her overall performance was good? How do you feel that Ehrenreich did? Did she perform at the best of her abilities?
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I do believe that many people look down on welfare recipients and see them as lazy people who need to get their stuff together. As for Barbara, I do not believe that she did as much of a good job as she claimed to have done. I feel that she made too many mistakes that, in real life, would have been extremely damaging to her success as an underpaid worker. She would not have made it much longer with the mistakes that she continually made.
ReplyDeletei actually do believe that people look down at people who rely on welfare and partially i think they they probably brought upon themselves because there are people who work hard for their money they have gone to school and every year their taxes go to organizations like those for other people and then they dont work because they know next week or so they will have food on their tables and its not fair.
ReplyDeleteI do believe people look down on people on welfare because they think they are lazy. When in reality it is because they just can not get a good enough paying job because of whatever past they have that is stopping them. Whether it is something on their record with the law or they have a family to take care of that came to early in life. But overall people do not always know the story of the welfare people and just judge them and expect them to do bad.
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