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This 7 page paper discusses Barbara Ehrenreich’s book “Nickel and Dimed,” as well as the system in place in Florida to assist the poor. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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considers her experiences in Florida, and that states welfare system. Discussion As is now well-known, Ehrenreich wondered one day how in the world people can live on $6 or $7
an hour. With the encouragement of her editor, she decided to find out-by actually finding low-wage jobs and working them. She did give herself several options that poor people dont
have in reality: she would always have a car, a "rent-a-wreck" that she would obtain in each location she went to; she would not go hungry; and she would not
live on the streets (Ehrenreich, 2001). If she was about to lose her housing because she hadnt made enough money to pay for it, she would stop her experiment in
that locality and move on (Ehrenreich, 2001). Obviously, real low-wage employees have none of these choices. She began in Key West, Florida, her home town, and found that looking for
a low-wage job is an upsetting and degrading experience, comprising intelligence tests, drug tests, and various bored interviewers who seemed to be only going through the motions (Ehrenreich, 2001). Her
experiences seem to be a series of challenges, and the first was to find a place to live. She thought that if she could earn $7/hour, she could perhaps afford
something that cost $500/month, or $600 with "severe economies," but anything else was out of her price range (Ehrenreich, 2001, p. 12). She was unable to find anything affordable in
Key West, and so made the compromise many low-income workers make: she found a place to live that was 45 minutes from her job, entailing a long trip to work
twice a day (Ehrenreich, 2001). She found herself moving into a run-down trailer park, and noted that Key West is expensive; its also very small - about 25,000 people -
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