Ilana Baker

 

3)      I think that race played a big part in getting an apartment, because the landlord was probably more likely to rent a white couple, especially since they didn’t have kids, which would have made it harder to pay the rent. However, I don’t think that race had anything to do with Morgan getting the job that he did. When he filled out his job application, his employer didn’t seem too picky about who he was employing. When he showed up on his first day at the temp job, there were many people from many different ethnicities. This shows that the temp agency he worked at most likely didn’t discriminate against people based on their race or ethnicity.

 

7)      The working poor are people who are employed, below the poverty line, and barely making ends meet. Many of them work minimum wage jobs, and they may also have families to support-sometimes as a single parent. They generally don’t get benefits such as health care, and this also contributes to their financial burden. Morgan and Alex were considered to be the working poor for 30 days. For the majority of the time, they didn’t have kids, they both worked full time, and even then, they barely made ends meet by the end of the 30 day period.