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Poor people often work 2+ jobs. Most poor people, even those with a single job must work _at least_ 8 hours a day, 7 days a week to come close, but nowhere nea
by clint 10y ago
Poor people often work 2+ jobs.
Most poor people, even those with a single job must work _at least_ 8 hours a day, 7 days a week to come close, but nowhere near enough, to supporting themselves—let along improving their station in life. And this is simply their job. Add onto this time that must be spent taking care of children and parents.
This class of individual is not going to be able to find time, even on a weekend, to vote because our society is explicitly engineered to put them at a disadvantage in time, capital, and thus political influence.
- SmellTheGlove 10y agoSee my other comments in this thread, or tl;dr, I agree with you entirely.
- todd8 10y agoLet's look at the numbers. Your suggestion that most poor people work at least 56 hours a week isn't consistent with what I've read. For example, from The Center for Poverty Research at UC Davis, "Who are the working poor?", first paragraph: > In 2013, 45.3 million people were poor. The majority of the people who live below the poverty level do not work. According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, only 10.5 million or 23 percent of the poor were “working poor.” [1] Note that I'm not arguing that there is not problem with voting and the poor. [1] http://poverty.ucdavis.edu/faq/who-are-working-poor http://poverty.ucdavis.edu/faq/who-are-working-poor