Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

Introduction

The book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, is written by Barbara Ehrenreich. According to Barbara, it is an ignorant belief that low-wage jobs entail "unskilled" labor. It is very hard to live on a minimum-wage job, and it takes great efforts from the lowly paid laborers to survive. In the results of her investigation, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, she wonders if the current economic hardships America is facing will finally break our society's cycle of poverty and punishment.

Thesis Statement

It is very hard to ...