Nickle and Dimed captures the story told by its author Barbara Ehrenreich who went undercover as a low wage worker to find out how low wage income workers make ends meet. The experiment took place in three different states where she stayed one month each and worked full time and lived only off of what she earned. Throughout the book you are introduced to various people she encountered during the experiment and learn about their lives and get an insider view of what living off a low income job is like.
Through Barbara's experiences and the experience's of the people she meets you really begin to understand just how hard it is to support oneself in today's economy. Not only is finding a job hard but keeping it and being able to support yourself and often times a family is almost impossible. Once again we see this theme that if you are poor it takes a miracle to get into the position to build yourself a better life. Not only do poor people get hired less in order to even scrape by you need multiple jobs that have long inconvenient hours. Once again we see how unattainable the american dream is, Ehrenreich set out to discover just how low wage workers make ends meet and by the title of the book its clear, "Nickle and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America", she discovered, most people can't make ends meet.
Through Barbara's experiences and the experience's of the people she meets you really begin to understand just how hard it is to support oneself in today's economy. Not only is finding a job hard but keeping it and being able to support yourself and often times a family is almost impossible. Once again we see this theme that if you are poor it takes a miracle to get into the position to build yourself a better life. Not only do poor people get hired less in order to even scrape by you need multiple jobs that have long inconvenient hours. Once again we see how unattainable the american dream is, Ehrenreich set out to discover just how low wage workers make ends meet and by the title of the book its clear, "Nickle and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America", she discovered, most people can't make ends meet.