A Small, Good Thing | Compare and Contrast
- 1980s: Carver writes mainly about people at the lower end of the socio-economic scale, and during the 1980s, the gap between the rich and the poor in the United States increases. Homelessness becomes a large social problem. It is caused by the lack of affordable housing, higher rates of joblessness, and reductions in public welfare programs that take place during the administration of President Ronald Reagan (1981–89).
Today: Homelessness remains a social problem that successive governments fail to tackle. Housing prices continue to rise, and people working in...
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