1) Lisa Dodson focuses on families who live in poverty in her book “the Moral Underground How Ordinary Americans Subvert Unfair Economy”. (5) She talked to the middle income people such as employers, supervisors, teachers and daycare providers whose jobs bring them into very close contact with working poor. Her initial plan was to discuss to issues related to work with low-income people such as tardiness. But Jonathan, a manager in a chain of grocery stores in the Midwest, changed Dodson’s initial research plan when he asked her don’t you want to know what this does to me too. (5) Jonathan consider himself a fair man and he felt immoral paying people less than what they needed to survive. He knows that what he pays his employees is not enough to cover basic human needs. He obviously felt bad having a good income that provides him with a good life and not paying enough to his employees who are hardworking parents. Yes, it is legal to set the wages too low but it is not fair for people who work very hard to feed their families.
“When you ignore injustice embedded in your society, you become part of it, complicit with what you consider immoral” (Dodson, 6). Andrew, Jonathan and many others witnessed the injustice as they work closely with the working poor and ignoring what …show more content…
(viii) To create a social change, people should be at the center, creating a strong voice. I recommend to President Barack Obama to pay attention to the voices of people who are at the center and consider the things the oppressed would say before making any decision. I recommend creating policies that would actually help people, rather than creating extra difficulties for them. Dodson states that “one goal of this book was to include some of their views in current public debates about the economy” (189). Who knows poverty better than people who actually live in poverty, considering the voices of people who live in poverty is