Poverty exists because our society is an unequal one, and there are powerful political pressures to keep it that way. Any attempt to redistributing wealth and 【S1】______ income in the United States will inevitably be opposed by powerful middle and upper class interests. People can be relatively rich only if you are relatively poor, 【S2】______ and as power is mainly in the hands of the rich, public policies reflect their interests than those of the poor. As Mr. Herbert Hans has pointed out, poverty is 【S3】______ actually functional from the point of view of the non-poor. Poverty ensures that dirty work gets doing. If there were no poor people to scrub floors and empty 【S4】______ bedpans, these jobs will have to be rewarded with high incomes before anyone 【S5】______ would touch them. Poverty creates jobs or many of the non-poor, such as police officers, welfare workers, and government bureaucrats. Poverty makes life easier for the rich by providing them with cookers, gardeners, and other workers to 【S6】______ perform. basic chores when their employers enjoy more pleasurable activities. 【S7】______ Poverty provides a market for more inferior goods and service, such as day-old 【S8】______ bread, rundown automobiles, or the advice of competent physicians and lawyers. 【S9】______ Poverty also provides a group that can be made to absorb the costs of change. It is just that poverty is an inevitable outcome of the American economic system, in 【S10】______ which the poor are politically powerless to influence or change. 【S1】