UNIT B - Post 11

A film that shows the struggles of a working poor woman is Erin Brockovich. This movie is about a woman who is a poor single mother and she struggles to support her family. She was desperate to find a job and her lawyer ended up giving her one as a favor to her since he didn't win her civil case for her. She is so poor she goes to work in torn ragged clothes and deals with people making fun of her but she continues to work as hard as she can until she rises up past everybody and succeeds just like she always wanted. Despite her financial situation she managed to overcome all the obstacles and make a good life for her and her family. This movie addresses the conditions of a poor working woman because Erin struggled for a job and was unemployed for quite a while and she was raising two children by herself without anybody's help and didn't even have health insurance until she started working for her lawyer. Her struggles with finding a job and health care and raising kids by herself are all things that the poor working women deal with today. Erin didn't have much options before she got a decent job and many poor woman today struggle in order to find shelter, food, health care, day care and jobs due to the fact that they either don’t have a job or don’t make enough money and like Erin they don’t have many options for help. With the poverty line being around 20,000 these women including Erin are left without any help from the government or many other agencies because if they make a cent over that poverty line they are determined to make too much for assistance when we all know they need the help. Welfare will deny them, food stamps might not be granted to them and health care such as access will deny them because they make over that poverty line. That poverty line can barely help a small family survive so a cent over that poverty line can’t either and that poverty line needs to be reevaluated so families can receive the assistance they deserve.