Outline: In America, there are considerable amounts of people who can't get enough money to maintain a healthy standard of living, even though they work hard. However, there are myths that working poor people don’t work hard, they are minorities and so on. Here are the facts about the working poor.

Characters:
Jenny: White woman, who’s going to reach 30 soon
John: White man, 38 years old, who has a wife and 2 children
Sandra: Hispanic woman, 26 years old
Tyrone: African-American man who is an unemployment agency worker
Ken: Asian boy who just started living by himself
Erin: NGO’s worker who does research and support the working poor people
George: politicians who believes America is not poor

Jenny: “I’m working in a company as a full fledged employee. I work every day until late, I think I'm a diligent worker, and have the right to have a decent life. However, my income is not enough to cover all the expenses. After I pay the rent and pay for medical insurance and everything, I have almost nothing in the bank. I struggle every month. I can't save money for the future, which worries me a lot.”

John: “I have a full-time job and work very hard everyday. But I’m still not getting enough money to feed my family. I have a wife and kids. We have to spend money on food and gas everyday, and we need money for our kids to go to school. Moreover I have to pay off a home loan. I know that we have to get health insurance, but there's no money left for it. I'm worried that if we got seriously ill or something, but there's nothing I can do because I work as hard as I can, and my wife is too busy to work because we have to take care of our children.”

Sandra: “I am a regular employee in a bank. Even though my parents are Mexican and I came from the area where many poor immigrants live, I graduated from university with good marks and got a good job, working diligently, so I can get enough money to live comfortably. These people who complain that they are not getting enough money are either single parents or actually not working enough.”

Tyrone: “I’m making arrangement for unemployed people everyday. I help find jobs for people who are having trouble finding employment. But these days, it’s harder to find higher income jobs in America. Also, a lot of people don’t have enough skills required for those higher income positions, so we would like to offer opportunities to train for new job skills.”

Erin:A market economy is efficient, but it is not just. Because wages are determined by the law of scarcity, some people cannot earn enough money to live a decent life.Some people can't go to school or medication because they don't have the money. These people should get more welfare services.The American government should enable all of us to get the education and health care equally like Swedish government　does.

George: Well the North europian countries such as Sweden seem like they have very good welfare systems　on the surface.However, the truth is that, The Swedish nation can't get proper health care and such because of the luck of money. You would rather get the services that you are getting　now by paying. The people in countries with generous welfare systems are paying for the services by taxes anyway.
People are complaining that thay are not getting standard. America is one of the richiest countries in the world, the nation is living high above of the world standard. You can't say there's poverty in the U.S. if you see the real poverty in some developing countries. People should be happy about what they already have ,rather than wanting more.