Compared to other developed nations in America, a large gap exists between the working poor and rich and has increased over the past 40 years (Mankiw, 2014). Assessing a better understanding, Shipler makes the reader want to fight for the working poor with the way he details their struggles. By interviewing workers from across the country with different circumstances, demographics, professions, and located in different regions, Shipler was able to obtain realistic data on the working poor population. After interviewing people, he was able to gain insight into the struggles of those who are invisible, such as having to choose between middle-class luxuries like having cable or a cell phone or paying bills, meager wages, and hours hard times for single mothers. like Caroline who has to struggle to provide for their family and feel like they don't matter to their employers. In addition to detailing the struggles of the working poor, Shipler mentions possible solutions along the way that society could assist with an increase in the minimum wage so that the working poor could have the opportunity to survive, possible programs that would focus on children of the working poor so that they can have a better future in high school and beyond, and if employers were able to reduce some requirements, more opportunities could be provided to the working poor. By creating state and local community outreach services such as teaching work etiquette, proper sanitation, education, and transportation, more people would be able to gain better self-esteem and have a reliable transportation to work. To have a fighting chance, invisible Americans need society to fight for them, so that those who make up the working poor know that they must