No Shame On My Game By Katherine Newman

Also, she gives an example of her experience with her family life in poverty. She has earned a doctorate in leadership, so the readers look at her as reasonable to trust. Also, readers are able to accept her way about what she talks in her article about poverty.

In her research, she spent over 600 hours in welfare offices, speaking to caseworkers, social workers, and welfare recipients and potential recipients themselves. She learned first hand how the Act affected the day to lives of poor women and their families, as well as how it affected the caseworkers who not only had to learn

I disagreed with this statement above because it is almost as if even though she know much about poverty as a woman in middle class she’s looking beneath them. I am not saying that what I interpret from this text is how she thought, but it is what I was lead to believe. She also mentions how no one acknowledges that she was a writer from my perspective, it was almost as if she felt that they should have been plastered with questions. She hid the fact that she was a writer with the exception of telling a few as if that would have changed the way her coworkers viewed her as a person. The question that stumbled upon me while reading this selection made me wonder why would a middle class woman wants to come back to experience the life of a poor person as if it was some sort of mockery. It seemed almost as if being poor living off of minimum wage is a choice whether a life decision. Does everybody believe that everybody can get out of poverty and become a part of the middle class or

Sugar’s realization of the world outside of her own, opens her mind to many questions that she never imagined before. She realizes that there is a better standard of living in the world and that society is not equal, as it should be, “I think, . . . that this is not much of a democracy if you ask me. Equal chance to pursue happiness means an equal crack at the dough, don’t it?,” (Bambara 452). In this quotation Sugar realizes what Miss Moore set out to teach the lower classed and deprived children, her goal was to open their eyes and make them aware of how much more there is out there then making pocket change. “What kinda work they do and how they live and how come we ain’t in on it? Where we are is who we are, Miss Moore always pointin out. But it don’t necessarily have to be that way, she always adds then waits for somebody to say that poor people have to wake up and demand their share of the pie and place,” (Bambara 452). With her eyes wide open and with her mind curious and educated, Sugar and her friends realize that in order for them to get some where in life they have to work at it, but not as in individual but as a whole, a class. The only way for them to make a difference to change societies view of their class and become part of the rest of societies.

We began our research by locating useful articles for our research online and collecting them on a document. As soon as we had a basic understanding on her background and legacy, we went back through those sources and searched for specific

However, those actions were the ones that set her apart from “typical” low wage individuals; for the things she could not sacrifice were many of which low- wage workers did not have. From that point on, her motif became objective; her new goal was to assess the scientific perspective of relations between a low- wage worker’s income, to their ability to cover their expenses.

When someone thinks of the poor they instantly imagine a homeless man sleeping in a cardboard box or the nearest garbage can, but the working poor especially in the inner-city is commonly overlooked by society. However the working poor, in this case the working poor in the inner-city, are people advancing to try and make their lives better. They are taking minimum wage jobs so that they can barely afford a roof over their heads. Within Katherine Newman 's novel No Shame In My Game, she studies the working poor in the inner-city to draw conclusions about how to help them and dispute common stereotypes and the images people commonly view. Newman 's conclusions along with the way she had conducted her case study will be evaluated for her

“Just the way it was”. That was Anne W. viewpoint of poverty when she was growing up and going to school. Anne and I met working for the same school district. She was born fifth of eleven children and started her schooling in the 1960s. Although Book’s writes about poverty in a more modern time a lot of what she writes was still true to Anne’s schooling. Her mother stayed at home and her father was a farm cropper, but never owned his own land. Book’s reminds us that poor people are working people. She reminds us to “Consider the role of the working poor in a market economy. Unable to support their own families, they provide a wealth of services to others.(Chamberlin 1999)” (PG. 29) The GI bill payed for her childhood home. She grew up in rural farm town of 1,600. When Book’s wrote about the demographics of poverty in chapter 5 I was surprised to learn that poverty is higher in rural areas.

In an article from The Atlantic called “The Female Face of Poverty” by Marie Shriver talks about the alarming rate of women living in poverty. Marie Shriver is a journalist who was born in Chicago, Illinois and is the niece of John F. Kennedy. She began her career as an NBC journalist and was the first lady of California. She is the founder of The Shriver Report which is a nonpartisan initiative that focuses on women’s issues. She discusses poverty in American over the years and the massive effect it has on women.

She finally got the real taste of poverty beside working and living off of her paycheck a when she got a distance amount of money in her pocket. I think she would of drop out of her research if she didn't have all those connections she had . In every city she went you could of felt how tried she was living like that. Do you think she age even more with stress ? I know she is older lady and they age but I wonder if she age any when she was doing this ? When she was talking about her finding I only agree on one things of her which is that low wage employees doesn't stick up for their self. It is because how rough it is to find a job. Most people will deal with their manager or boss mouth so they have a pay check every week . It's sad how this society works today with money. It breaks my heart seeing people who is struggling at the time they might of put their self in that spot. When she was talking about the tax credit (tax

She talks about the lack of health condition she and her three children suffered from. She explains, poverty is sacrificing one’s own life and health, being ridiculed and judged by outsiders, constantly worrying about children and how they will never have a happy life, and feeling broken because

She admits that as a black woman, it's not easy to move out of a mindset of poverty, we have a history of investing poorly and making bad financial decisions, noting that no one wants to sacrifice. And often times, even with good intentions our money can be poorly spent. However, she emphasizes this part, it is

The book I am reading is called I Can’t Keep my Own Secrets by Larry Smith. Overall I think this book is amazing but it had a lot of twists and turns on each page one would be funny and then another one would be sad for example , “I've only been stable for months.” And then on the same page it would be like “I secretly watch Hannah Montana at night.” I feel like everybody can relate to this book in a certain way. At first I felt the book was going to be boring but then my teacher actually read it out aloud and I really liked the book so I checked it out and it was a very good book and very emotional at times.

The scholarly article, written by Maryah Stella Fram, Julie E. Miller-Cribbs, and Lee Van Horn focuses on poverty and what social workers can do to minimize the effects. The writers of this article chose to focus on an expert audience that have deep knowledge

Her desire to help others was put into practice at a young age. She started out by