"Nickel and Dimed"

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America's poor work hard daily to make minimum wages with awful benefits. This paper explains how Ehrenreich gives up her life of riches for a few months of going "undercover" into the world of minimum wages and awful management to prove that it is impossible to support a wholesome lifestyle on their wages.

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"America is a country burdened with poverty and low wages. As years go by, it seems like the problem is getting worse and worse. As Barbara Ehrenreich shows in her book, "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America", millions of average Americans work non-stop, endless hours every day of the week, and are still not able to secure an economically sound lifestyle for themselves, or the families many of them have to support. Barbara joins these average Americans in an attempt to prove that a six to seven dollar an hour job cannot provide in today's society. Although America's poor worker's failure to form unions plays a direct impact on their low incomes, other factors such as lack of education, no spare time, and no savings or extra money to begin with also contribute to their inability to rise from such poor lifestyles. It is all of these factors that lead to the growing impoverished population we are facing today."

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