Nickel and Dimed: Study Questions #4

Part 4: Evaluation

1. How does Ehrenreich evaluate her skills as a low-income worker?

2. How does she rate her survival skills?

3. What does she tell us she learned from her experiment?

4. Why don't the official poverty figures reflect the true numbers of poor people?

5. According to Ehrenreich why don't the workers seek better-paying jobs?

6. Why don't the employees ask for more money?

7. What parallels does Ehrenreich draw between low-wage employers and society as a whole?

8. Why are the poor invisible to the rich (affluent)?

9. What proof does Ehrenreich offer that welfare reform has not really worked?

10. What does Ehrenreich tell us we should feel?

11. What does she say will happen?

12. Do you agree with her arguments? Why?

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