填空题
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.