Gary Younge recently wrote an article about poverty in the United States. At one point in the article, he shows how the Bush administration has pushed more working class people into poverty. I include an excerpt:
So it would have seemed last Tuesday when the US census bureau revealed its latest findings on income, poverty and health. The report showed that since George Bush came to power the poverty rate had risen by 9%, the number of people without health insurance had risen by 12%, and real median household income had remained stagnant. On the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina we learned the racial disparity in income and the gap between rich and poor show no sign of abating.
Ironically, the Bush administration cites fractional decreases year in the poverty he created as good news. In the article quoted above, Gary Younge describes class warfare as the rich attacking the poor, and points out that the poor have not yet started fighting back. He points out the lack of unity amongst the working class, due to many Americans referring to themselves as “middle class” rather than “working class.”
I think the entire working class needs to band together and stop letting ultra-rich people leech off its labor. Within any 10 year period, approximately 40% of the United States falls into poverty. People cycle in and out of poverty. Poverty affects the entire working class, not some isolated, marginal lower class. If the working class organized better, they could fight the socioeconomic corruption that rich people use to weasel them out of their money. The working class can demand more freedom and fairness, and finally put an end to poverty and other working class problems.