Over the weekend the fiance and I wrote a colaborative piece on The Working Poor based on a book by the same name. We talked on and off during the weekend, since we were iced into our house, about the root causes of the working poor. Being in the middle of Rise of the Creative Class I wanted to look for a tie-in. We found it together.
Poverty is obviously tied to financial distress, but suprisingly to mee it is the type of work that garners lower than average wages. Referencing Rise, I postulated that the poor are less creative, and she pointed out that they do not have the opportunity to be creative, develop a sense of creativity, and more importantly find a way to harnes that energy into a stable income. Her point was when you move from crisis to crisis you will never have the chance to explore your creative side and tap it. We rolled around some ideas and then wrote her paper. the answer then to poverty, fro our conversation only, is threefold: create a stable environemnt for the working poor, give them the ways and means to full investigate their inner abilities, help them tap their potential for long term sustainable employment.
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