Nickel and Dimed (Christian Bradley)

In Barbara Ehrenrich's Nickel and Dimed the main character is faced with the life of a low-income american worker. She gets to see a first hand experience of poverty when she is sent out to three different cities expecting to find a job without having experience or a resume. Poverty becomes most apparent to her when she starts associating with those who dealing with it most, trying to relate to them when her herself is making minimum wage. Along with that minimum wage is trying to live day by day looking for food and shelter not knowing what she is going to find. She believes that the poverty is enough and that the low income part of the U.S. is in dying need of help. She wants anything, anything at all that will help those in need, what she would like most is to help with the medical conditions of those poverty filled people.

Number 6:
I believe that if the author was one of color or a single parent that the outcome of her story would be significantly different. If the author was a single parent then the employs would have been skeptical to hire her. Being a single parent would lead employers to believe that then there would be no one else there to watch your children, therefore you cannot always be dependable. Also if the author was one of color then the employers may have not hired her at all due to them not thinking of her equal. Employers also may have tried to get her to work but for a lower rage again because she would not be the equal of them themselves.