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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America is a book written by Barbara Ehrenreich. Written from her perspective as an undercover journalist, it sets out to investigate the impact of the 1996 welfare reform act on the working poor in the United States. The events related in the book took place between spring 1998 and summer 2000.
Nickel & Dime is a 1991 [1] American comedy film written by Ben Moses, Eddy Pollon and Seth Front, directed by Moses and starring C. Thomas Howell and Wallace Shawn. [ 2 ] Cast
She was a widely read and award-winning columnist and essayist and the author of 21 books. Ehrenreich was best known for her 2001 book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, a memoir of her three-month experiment surviving on a series of minimum-wage jobs. She was a recipient of a Lannan Literary Award and the Erasmus Prize.
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Why the book Nickel and Dimed was flawed from the beginning. Why raising the minimum wage does not stimulate the economy of the lower class. Why immigration and job outsourcing are not the causes of decreasing opportunity in the American workforce. How certain individuals are profiting from the consumer's fear of the death of the American Dream ...
From banks to colleges, American consumers are being nickeled and dimed like never before. Here are some of the biggest offenders, and your best defense against How to Avoid Getting Nickel and ...
The book follows Ehrenreich's examination of the world of insecure low-wage work that constituted Nickel and Dimed, published in 2001. In this case, she decided to pseudonymously penetrate the corporate world instead and then write about the way in which things operate in reality in a similar manner to her earlier book (in this case adopting ...