School is a viable solution, but how is a minimum wage worker supposed to pay the sky-high tuitions of higher education? ... Ehrenreich says that the poor, " neglect their own children so that the children of others will be cared for; they live in substandard housing so that the other homes will be shiny and perfect; they endure privation so that inflation will be low and stock prices will be high To be a member of the working poor is to be a nameless benefactor to everyone else (p.221, Fine and Weis)." ...

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