David K. Shipler Quotes:

Workers on the edge of poverty are essential to America’s prosperity, but their well-being is not treated as an integral part of the whole. Instead, the forgotten wage a daily struggle to keep themselves from falling over the cliff. It is time to be ashamed.

- David K. Shipler

source: David K. Shipler (2008). “The Working Poor: Invisible in America”, p.300, Vintage

topic: Struggle, Fall, America, Daily Struggle

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