Barbara Ehrenreich

backgrounds, this is one of the few opportunities available to them to earn a living, and the work experience can be used as a stepping-stone to other employment opportunities. Coincidentally, my service project experience was similar to Barbara Ehrenreich experiment, chronicled in her book, Nickel and Dimed: On (not) Getting by in America. The individuals I worked with were low-wage earners, making minimum wage, and some had 2 jobs. The work, although not physically taxing, was tiresome…

President Clinton once said “nobody who works full time with kids in the home should be in poverty”. Yet in 2012 the United States Labor of Bureau Statistics reported that there were 10.6 million working individuals who live below the official poverty line. Currently the United States government considers an individual to be poor if he makes less than 11,770 dollars per year, the actual number varies based on the number of individuals living in a household. For example, if a family of four makes…