Social Issues
Along the way, Shepard explores controversial premises, such as:
- Why the book Nickel and Dimed was flawed from the beginning.
- Why raising the minimum wage does not stimulate the economy of the lower class.
- Why immigration and job outsourcing are not the causes of decreasing opportunity in the American workforce.
- How certain individuals are profiting from the consumer's fear of the death of the American Dream.
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“Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich; social aid levels up social inequalities. Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.”
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