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In four pages this paper provides a critique of Barbara Ehrenreich’s 2001 text. There are no additional sources listed in the bibliography.
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The Progressive, and Mother Jones, among others. Author of nearly twenty books usually on important sociopolitical issues near and dear to her heart, one of Ehrenreichs most critically acclaimed
and commercially popular texts was Nickel and Dimed: On (Not Getting By in America, which was first published in 2001 and spent an impressive two years on The New York
Times bestseller list. Ehrenreich has long been a passionate advocate for the disenfranchised and was dismayed as what she regarded as the federal governments insistence on minimizing the impact
of poverty on American society and its workforce. She decided to research what was meant by the term poverty level and to find answers to the questions, How does
anyone live on the wages available to the unskilled? and How do 4,000,000 women who have lost welfare benefits live on $6 or $7 an hour? (Ehrenreich, 2001, p. 1)
This divorced mother with grown children traveled across the United States and settled in Key West Florida, Portland, Maine, and Minneapolis, Minnesota where she would seek housing and unskilled
jobs within these parameters and still be able to make ends meet in terms of rent, food, clothing, and transportation. This text is a virtual diary of her experiences
and observations. The text is effective in that the author is never condescending to the readers or to her unskilled labor target group. As would a person in the
same situation, Ehrenreich calculates that if she could get a job in her hometown of Key West which pays $7 an hour, she would have about $500 for rent and
perhaps $500 for gas and groceries (these calculations would naturally have to be adjusted to accommodate the current high price of gas) (Ehrenreich, 2001). After getting a job working
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