Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich

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Book Review: "Economically-Superior" Guilt or just plain rubbish...
Summary: 2 Stars

Ultimately - I did not expect to walk away with a new-found understanding of the economic underclass... what I was interested in was how Ehrenreich would feel in the role. The disappointingly arrogant view of her new self-inflicted world was somewhat surprising.

The book was stretched out - more padding then true insights... but the "Evaluation" was the real Ehrenreich unleashed...

This book may have been slightly more eye-opening to the clueless in 2000-2001 - but by 2003 if you haven't heard enough about recession, job loss and the working poor then you should stick to 'Green Eggs and Ham' for literary fodder. We are led to believe that somehow this book will (or at the very least 'should') make some kind of impact. Not a chance. Not when the investigative author herself culminates with the thought that in actuality the poor are making conscience and heartfelt sacrifices for the wealthy everyday by working substandard jobs -and we should respect them for this. So ultimately - she is saying the poor choose to be poor. She didn't learn a thing.

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