Category: Nickel and Dimed

Throughout this class, I have learned that Urban Studies has a lot to do with community. In a community, the general focus is the ties that bind people together and tear them apart. I genuinely enjoyed chapters six through nine in the book but I would like to specifically focus on chapters six and eight…

What lies within the depths of a minimum wage job? In this investigative journal, A Nickle and Dimed, our protagonist and author Barbara Ehrenreich explores the worst when it comes to low-wage jobs in America in the late 1900s and early 2000s. In the book she goes undercover through different jobs across the country and…

CNBCs Shawn Carter states that Less than 20% of Americans say they are living the American Dream. The majority of people in the U.S. dont feel that they are living their American Dream. Barbara Ehrenreich states in her article Nickel and Dimed: I am terrified, at the beginning, of being unmasked for what I am:…

Immigrants come to the United States for several reasons and one of the most common is the search for better opportunities. They see the United States as a place where they can accomplish their goals. For whatever reason immigrants come to the United States, it usually involves the pursuit of the American Dream. One of…

The film Nickel and Dimed: From the American Ruling Class shows the life of low-wage workers in Americas society. In this video, Barbara Ehrenreich went about trying to mimic their life style and work ethic firsthand, living as a low-wage worker. I was very impressed at her angle of perspective to consider low-wage workers as…