Cesar Santiago

“Being poor is a full-time job, it really is.”
― David K. Shipler, The Working Poor: Invisible in America

“At the extremes of the debate, liberals don’t want to see the dysfunctional family, and conservatives want to see nothing else. Depending on the ideology, destructive parenting is either not a cause or the only cause of poverty. Neither stereotype is correct. In”
― David K. Shipler, The Working Poor: Invisible in America

“When feelings matter more than rationality or facts, education is a doomed enterprise. Emotion”
― Thomas M. Nichols, The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters

“Wo rkers at 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, The Working Poor: Invisible in America