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An 8 page paper based on chapters from this entitled book and a book by Barbara Enreneich. The three sources discuss how classes change during economic crises and how they changed specifically during the 1990s and 2000s with so many white-collar workers out of work along with the working poor. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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people in the country from the poor to the white-collar population. They have also affected all races and ethnicities as do all economic crises. This essay explores these issues with
the thesis that the federal government is not doing all it could do to help and, in fact, has hindered people receiving assistance to get through these bad times.
What has happened to classes Barbara Enreneich, a journalist and author, wanted to know what was happening in the professional job market and so she went undercover as a job-seeker.
She advertised herself as a public relations professional and created a false resume to support those facts. Despite all her work and efforts, she could not get a job. She
used networking both on the ground and on the Internet, image consultants, career consultants, books, job fairs, and everything that seems to be available for the job seeker all to
no avail (Enreneich, n.d.). She published her experiences in her latest book, "Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream" in 2006. Enreneich writes a lot about the
poor but beginning in about 2002, she began hearing from people who were college graduates in white-collar occupations who were suddenly reporting the same hardship experiences as those in poverty,
cars broken down and no way to get to work, children ill and no health insurance (Enreneich, n.d.). The white-collar class was on a downward mobility trend. While those
in poverty are often criticized for making poor choices like not going to college, these people had made all the right choices. They sacrificed, they got degrees in fields where
they could earn a good living but here they were in the same circumstances as those who has supposedly made the wrong choices (Enreneich, n.d.). Their employers reduced
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