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Barbara Ehrenreich on Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich on Nickel and Dimed

by Barbara Ehrenreich

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In this talk from 2005, Barbara Ehrenreich describes some of her experiences writing Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. For the book she went undercover as one of the many working poor in America, taking up minimum wage jobs as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She learned a lot working these minimum wage jobs and the people she worked with. From the humiliating application process (that included drug testing) to the toll that these jobs had on her physically and mentally, Ehrenreich provides a humorously bleak picture of what life is like for the bottom 25% of Americans. Now over 20 years from the books publication, not much has changed for working class America with soaring rent costs, healthcare costs, and food costs causing so many Americans to struggle to get by, while the rich get richer in one of the richest countries in the world.


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