Government assistance was only supposed to be temporary. Sometimes I feel like the poor have a sense of entitlement because they feel like the government or rich people put them in poverty. I feel like it isn’t the government's fault for their downfall. I believe that everybody plays a part in everything that happens. “The Working Poor” has so much irony in the title alone. How is it that a person can be working, yet still be poor? David Shipler wanted people to not forget about the minority groups that people seem to have forgotten about. I feel that Shipler was very focused on certain people situations especially the lower class. I believe that a lot of “rich” people were fed up with this book being published because it’s making people know