![]() ![]() In Maine, she takes two other jobs and experiences similar exhaustion in, and she also sees how employers callously treat employees. She realizes that saving is also difficult for the working poor people since they spend more on food and other various necessities. ![]() She suffers exhaustion and quits the second one. She cannot sustain herself with the salary and gets another job on top of waitressing. She gets a job as a waitress after countless applications. In Florida, she noticed a high level of unemployment. It is believed that the privileged in the U.S are reaping from determination and hard work while the lacking remain so due to lack of resourcefulness and motivation.īarbara travels to Florida, Maine, and Minnesota to see whether she would survive on an unskilled laborer’s salary. She aims at showing the obstacles that these people face that hinder the success and development of even the very determined. In Nickel and Dimed, Barbara aims at correcting some of the common misconceptions about the bottom pile of society. The book contains accounts of events within 19. She investigates the impact of the American Welfare act reformed in 1966 and its effect on the poor working class. “Nickel and Dimed” by Barbara Ehrenreich is an investigative book whereby Barbara is a journalist working undercover. ![]()
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