The Working Poor: Invisible in America

My book club group is ready to start working on the project. For our next meeting we decided that we would have a couple things picked out that we were interested in while reading the book. Each of us will probably have something different that interested us so we were thinking of splitting up the presentation in that way. Each of us could talk about a different chapter that interested us to get the point of the book across to the class while talking about something we like and know.

The two chapters that I am interested in are Chapters seven and eight. Chapter seven is called Kinship and it is about a poor family who has been through tough times and the mother has cancer, but they are still hopeful and never lose the real meaning of life. They do not let their lack of money pull down their will to go on. Chapter eight is called Body and Mind and it is about a woman who sees all types of cases of children being malnourished because their families are too poor to buy nutritious food. It talks about the WIC program that is available to these types of families.