What does this remind you of? Does this look familiar?
Tracks
Long ago it was said that “one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.” That was true then. It did not know because it did not care. The half that was on top cared little for the struggles, and less for the fate, of those who were underneath, so long as it was able to hold them there and keep its own seat
Jacob Riis documented the lives of the poor immigrants whom lived crowded together in apartments.
Collapse of The Economy
It’s pretty sad that people will work for anything even for crumbs because of how large of a problem poeverty has become.
The American Reality.
http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/PovertyinAmerica.html
“,income mobility has fallen slightly. According to one estimate, 40 percent of families occupied the same position in the income distribution,”
American Life Today
pretty self explanatory. source.
