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🍇 🍇 Nickel and Dimed. A nonfiction book where the author goes under cover working minimum wage jobs (one of which is a server) to highlight the difficulties the poorer class faces in day to day life. Tagged.

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I read this #temptingtitles #withmoney a long time ago and the impact has stayed with me!

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This answers the questions of why poor people make what others would judge as bad decisions. The author does a great job answering the questions from her own experiences. She makes the distinctions between poverty-stricken, poor and broke. A look at how our countries poor are judged harshly and even why, and how, our system could be better. I learned a lot from this and will be thinking about it for a long time. I highly recommend this one.

Published in 2014 after Tirado wrote a post about poverty on Gawker that went viral, she does a good job of explaining problems of the working poor in America, though her own situation was apparently not as bad as implied (which caused me to waiver on making this a pick). However, I saw a lot of truth in her depiction of low pay service and retail jobs and I do agree poor people are judged and treated badly in our society.

Finished this audiobook while making progress on a Xmas gift for my mom (she‘s into astrology & her sign is Cancer) #audiostitching #litsycrafters

I mainly enjoyed this book; I thought the narrator was excellent. So much privilege & seeming contempt for others, especially overweight people, though. I found many of the stats & facts uncomfortable and, no doubt, things are more dismal now than in the late 90s when Ehrenreich did her experiment ⬇️

RIP https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/sep/02/barbara-ehrenreich-author-dies-nic.... “She was never much for thoughts and prayers, but you can honor her memory by loving one another, and by fighting like hell.”

A meh book on an important subject. Maybe this hadn‘t aged well, despite the fundamental problems remaining unchanged. Maybe I‘ve read other books on similar subjects that worked better for me (Freakonomics and Fast Food Nation, both last year, come to mind). I just wanted more from this and didn‘t get it. Another done for #AwesomeAugust

It was very good and unfortunately still relevant today.

This has been on my Litsy tbr for a long time. Written 20 yrs ago but sadly, still very relevant today. Not much I didn‘t already know, but it was interesting to hear about the author‘s experiences in the low wage jobs. Definitely some white privilege. 3.5/5 ⭐️ 16 pts #mistletoemaniacs #wintergames @Clwojick

“The working poor are the great philanthropists of our society” ~ Barbara Ehrenreich