A white, middle aged, capable woman with dependable transportation can't support herself working two jobs. ... Ehrenreich's book is a success. ... Ehrenreich did an excellent job of covering the intended subject matter. ... From this book however I learned that sometimes jobs appear to be a lot easier or less stressful than they really are. Growing up on a farm, if it wasn't manual labor I couldn't see how a job could be hard. ...

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In this book, Ehrenreich, explores what it is like to work for very low wages in America. ... Many, who have turned to drugs, are unable to get jobs, and if they do get a job, it is very hard to keep. ... The "working poor" in this book are not just characters portrayed by an author. ... I personally have worked in many places similar to the ones discussed in this book. ... So what does this book show about our great country. ...

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This book by Robert Kiyosaki is written for you. ... While Kiyosaki can take his leisure getting to the point, he still kept me interested throughout the book. ... Or 'I'll get another job. ... Or 'I like this job because it's secure.' ... Final Thoughts This book is a bestseller for a reason, in my opinion. ...

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The book represents the lives of many immigrants who arrived to America to find the American dream, but as they experience the hardships of labor, discrimination and corruption, poverty took over their lives. In the book, the author clearly describes the dangerous and unsanitary working conditions that employees had to deal with, and the cruelty that was given to workers with cheap labor and long hours without having any benefits given to the employees. Many workers had accidents in the factories and were left without a job when they were injured. ... The fact that there was no security in job...

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The biggest struggles represented in the book are due to racism, poverty, and crime. ... In the "Goin" Legit" chapter of the book we see the discrimination that is experienced by Primo and Caesar when they attempted working in a "legitimate" work environment. ... Hence, they are denied well paying jobs not only because of their race but because of their lack of education. ... This machoism and cruelty can be seen in various instances throughout the book. ... These people are able to hold legit jobs and practice the morals and values of mainstream America. ...

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This stage of the book also explains why economic growth in the 1970's was losing steam. "One reason that the economic growth in the 1970's lost its power to reduce poverty was that many of the poor were without jobs. If one has no job, it makes no difference how much the economy grows, poverty remains." The government was able to make a stronger Labor Department to jump on this crisis and see to it that it could better train people to find new jobs and to help the people attain jobs that it did. ... The solutions will come as the book states "not because the stingy people have ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Although she did not stay on the job for long, other people had experienced that job for a long time. ... That is the case with many low wage jobs, there are dangers to working in low wage jobs. ... As Ehrenreich searches for jobs she encounters many jobs that do not pay enough to sustain her. ... In the book Nickel and Dimed, Ehrenreich talked about poverty in many occasions and she went on to describe the lives that her co-workers lived. ... Ehrenreich's book has taught me the the poverty class is the most hard working class but because of where they are in the economy they can't a...

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There are many instances where people need the government to support them such as being elderly, physical illnesses, low-income jobs, single parent, uneducated, unskilled, loss of income and many more instances where welfare help is needed. ... Many women have side jobs that are not reported to take care of these needs such as, cooking, housecleaning, and babysitting. These side jobs take care of entertainment, clothing and other necessities the recipient feel they deserve or they desire. ... Many speculate the illegal off the book income from fathers, relative, friends or side jobs but th...

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The main character of this book is Firdaus; Firdaus is a woman who has stood on her own since child birth and tries to find justice in a corrupt society. ... This book is the insight of a woman who sticks to the only means of survival she knows. ... As you are reading this book you wonder when will her life change and she will become somebody she is happy with, but the truth is she never reaches her potential. ... El Saadawi does a great job of putting the story into words that get us all fired up and ready to go out and save women just like Fridaus. ...

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His first book, There Are No Children Here, came about from a series of articles he wrote for The Wall Street Journal. This book has received a number of awards including the Helen B. ... Death appears a countless number of times all throughout the book, but I particularly felt that chapter 22 displayed the effects of the many deaths that the boys had to face. Though many chapters in the book described incidents of actual deaths, this chapter conveys the emotional aftermath. ... The book speaks of how even police feared coming into the neighborhood. ...

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The book is filled with intriguing chapters on history and a bold analysis of present-day America. ... Gregory McNamee reviewed Kevin Philips Wealth and Democracy and found that the book "examined cycles of economic growth and decline from the founding days of the republic to the recent collapse of technology stocks, Phillips dispels notions of trickle-down wealth creation, pricks holes in speculative bubbles, and decries the ever-increasing "financialization" of the economy--all of which, he argues, have served to reduce the well-being of ordinary Americans and government alike. Highly reada...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He's twenty, but he isn't attending an art school to become a comic book artist. ... She makes him a deal: if he buys an SAT review book, she will help him brush up on his fractions and things. ... Whether this is related to having health insurance, or simply to having more knowledge to make healthier lifestyle choices, there is no doubt that being poor is bad for your health. (525) " To improve you socioeconomic status and earning power, you need to get a well-paying job. You increase the chances of getting a well-paying job by going to college, to get into college you need to take ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In a booming economy, job stability and job security have deteriorated. ... When they do find work, their new jobs pay, on average, thirteen percent less than the job they lost. ... This program provides funds for basic skills and literacy instruction, job training, and job search activities ("Homeless"). ... Ann Braden Johnson argues this point in her book Out of Bedlam: The Truth About Deinstitutionalization, "the homeless people who do work tend to be eligible only for non-skilled, low-paying jobs- jobs that often do not pay enough for rent" ("Introduction"). ... Also, a decline in manufact...

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In the article, "Are the Homeless Crazy," from the book, Rachel and Her Children, which was published in 1988, Jonathan Kozol challenges the widely accepted claim that homelessness is a result of deinstitutionalization that took place in the 1970s. ... They cite decreasing welfare benefits to families with children, and the lack of entry-level jobs to justify their claim. ...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

That is far from the truth, some of the so-called "lazy" people do have jobs, but most are stuck with low-paying jobs. Yet these people with the low-paying jobs have troubles supporting themselves because of how little that they make, but they still try to benefit all that they can to our society. ... (Medicaid Web Page, www.hcfa.gov, 1999; Legal Information Institute, www.law.cornell.edu, 2002) Book Views The New Class War by Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. ... What I learned from this book is that the United States has gone through a major change since the 19th Century. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Yonnondio is set in the twenties; however, Tillie Olsen describes this book as "a novel of the 1930's" because this prose is a forum to address political and social conditions of the thirties. ... This book is about poverty's mandate that people work and the harsh conditions presented by this poverty. Jim, father of Tillie's character Maize, goes from unskilled job to unskilled job in an effort to provide tolerable living conditions for his family. ... Feeling deprived of his manhood Jim comments, "Tracy I"m sorry we weren't stronger and show you that kind of individua...

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For years women could not make as much as a man and to this day still are not making as much as a man on average in the same job. ... As David Leonhardt brought up in his article "Wage Gap Between Men and Women Shrinks", in the Book of Leviticus it is said "the value of a man's life was put at 50 shekels and a woman's at 30 shekels." ... It must also be brought up that maybe these minority groups simply do not take certain jobs due to nonpecuniary job characteristics. ... An example would be a lot of women would not take a job as a football coach even if it was offered to them due...

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• Grade Level: High School

Then because they have to work two sometimes three jobs, they are exhausted and very often get sick. ... Holly Skylar who coauthored the book "Raise the floor: Wages and policies that work for all of us" writes that had wages kept up with productivity since 1968, the average wage would have been $24.56 in 2000, rather than $13.74. ... They will do the minimum required to keep the job until they can find a better one. ... Go inside and the employees always look clean professional and happy doing their jobs. ... Poor workers should not have to work two and three jobs to ...

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In his book, Urrea goes into tremendous detail about his life living in those slums and the images he saw growing up on the other side of "the wire.... Urrea gives many examples of this concept in his book, but I think the example that he gave that genuinely made me stomach flip was when Jesusita and her husband were executed by a local militia living in the slum. ... In cities, you have people competing over the most basic essentials in life such as social hierarchy, food, shelter, utilities and jobs. ... I cannot lie; reading this book at times was hard. ... Urrea's book Across th...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Overall the book is eloquently written and the wording is perfect as so that the reader is not cause up in terminology and language and can instead focus on the premises and ideas. ... Card also shows that immigrants are forced to take low income jobs and are ultimately denied basic human rights that the government claims to afford to everyone. ... The book is well written and offers many alternate sources of information. ... These new findings do a much more efficient job in reflecting how people view poverty and shows how much families truly need to make ends meet. ...

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All records were kept in the Parish Vestry book.... (Rankin) Employers found it difficult to employ workers in the traditionally more difficult jobs since higher pay was no longer an incentive. ... Producing higher marginal tax rates, lower output, job losses and decreasing living conditions among the people these programs have been designed to help. ... "( Keith Rankin) Even the author of our text book(Walter Trattner) is obviously a supporter of a guaranteed income system he states that as the system spread it seemed to bring with it higher tax rates, higher prices and caused workers t...

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I made a bad choice of getting pregnant, but I have also stood up to my responsibility and ensured that my children and I are properly taken care of and that I have a job to do this. According to, Christopher Jenks an author who wrote an article on the book, "Making Ends Meet", by Kathryn Edin and Laura Lein, suggests and I totally agree: The better option is to accept the public's judgment that no able-bodied adult should get something for nothing, assume that single mothers ought to work whenever jobs are available, and build a support system that also allow...

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This caused people to search for minimum wage jobs. ... Just from that section in Ehrenreich's book, the conclusion can be made that people working can also be living in poverty (Ehrenreich). ... Without an education, getting a high-end job can be very difficult. ... Unfortunately, there are many people that work minimum wage jobs. ... Many people try to find jobs, but many of the available jobs are the ones that pay minimum wage or less without a college education. ...

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"Poverty at Hull House" by Jane Adams does a great job of looking at American society in a way from the point of view of the average working class citizen and the poor man. The main thing anyone should take away from this book is that a lack of attention towards otherwise serious social and economic issues is not a solution to the problem. ...

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In his most recent book entitled The Life You Can Save Singer argues that it is the fortunate citizens of developed countries responsibility to provide financial aid to the extremely poor people in the Third World. ... In his book, Peter Singer gave three plausible arguments that all lead to the same conclusion which again is that, "if you do not donate to aid agencies, you are doing something wrong.... Out of nearly a dozen objections he responses to in his book, I find the most interesting objection is the one stated by the Canadian philosopher Jan Narveson. ... Singer states that this ...

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