In Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbara travels to three cities across the United States to work in minimum wage jobs and see if she can support herself. She faces homelessness, hunger, sickness, lack of sleep, and issues with her pride. She realizes that it is very difficult for her to support on a minimum wage salary let alone a single mom with a family to take care of. She begins to see that the wealthy have no idea how hard the poor have it. She begins to see poverty in an entirely different way. She no longer sees people struggling with poverty as “the poor”, but instead as real people with problems, talents, and lives like everyone else.
#15. I don’t think that Americans make excessive demands on the family unit. It isn’t the government’s job to step in and help these people. The government programs that are already in place are enough. Your family is a group of people that you should depend on, and call on when you need help. If the government stepped in and helped everyone, they wouldn’t be doing their job, which is to do what is best for the country as a whole.. If the government tried to give these people money they would have to take money away from other people who worked hard to earn it. I understand that the people living these types of lives have it very tough, but if the government helped some people they would inevitably be hurting others
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