nickle and dimed 4. ... Ehrenreich reflects on the jobs she had and is amazed on how much pain low wage people can handle. ... Nickel and Dimed was written in a very momentous time for the nation's poor people. ... 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. ...

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After a thorough reading of her book Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich very clearly conveys the sad state that these minimum wage workers are living in. ... When Barbara went undercover in Minnesota she applied at Wal-Mart. ... And after all of this you still might not even get the job as was the case for Barbara. ... Some are even living in worse conditions, like the girls that Barbara met in Florida. ... In the restaurant business in Florida Barbara never got a break. ...

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Statistics, and Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed, show us these people can barley afford to eat on their wages let alone pay for, or even save for, an education. ... In Nickel and Dimed, Ehrenreich talks about how some of her co-workers were in fact not lazy, like society makes them out to be, but they would hide their skills so their bosses would not over use and take advantage of them. ... Ehrenreich says that the poor, " neglect their own children so that the children of others will be cared for; they live in substandard housing so that the other homes will be shiny and perfec...

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