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Robert Gaspar
1st Period Economics
Nickel and Dimed Essay
The book Nickel and Dimed is about a woman, named Barbara Ehrenreich, who wonders if single mothers due to the recent Welfare reform will be able to survive financially. For her informational use she decides to survive on low wages in three different cities in America. Ms. Barbara Ehrenreich did undergraduate work at Reed College and then went on to receive the PH.D in Biology from The Rockefeller University in New York City. Instead of gaining a job in Biology she decided to begin a writing career. She has written for many publications such as Time and New York Times. She has also taught a graduate writing seminar. She has also written aside from essays many fictional and non-fictional books.
The first city Ehrenreich goes to is Key West. Here she obtains two different restaurant jobs as well as working at a hotel as a house keeper. She picks up her first witnessing job which will get her 2.43 an hour, plus any tips she was able to get. She then picks up a second job at Jerry's for a high pay than at the other restaurant she works at. She then realizes that she is unable to work at both places so she quits her job at the first restaurant to work at jerry's. after a month of working at jerry's she gets a job as a house keeper in a hotel (which she only lasts a day in). Ms. Ehrenreich ends up spending a total of a month and a day in Key West before moving on to her next city.
The next city Ehrenreich decides to live in is Maine. She gains her first job at "Merry Maids" which is a house-cleaning service a ...