Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in AmericaThe New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted |
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... apartment, and the Preamble Center for Public Policy was estimating that the odds against a typical welfare recipient's landing a job at such a “living wage” were about 97 to 1. Why should I bother to confirm these unpleasant facts? As ...
... apartments I looked at, which said, “If you seek happiness for yourself you will never find it. Only when you seek ... apartment of a bellhop at the Best Western. At Hearthside, we utilize whatever bits of autonomy we have to ply our ...
... apartment he shares with his girlfriend and two other, unrelated people. As far as I can determine, the other Haitian men live in similarly crowded situations. Annette, a twenty-year-old server who is six months pregnant and Serving in ...
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Contents
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Two Scrubbing in Maine | 51 |
Three Selling in Minnesota | 121 |
Evaluation | 193 |
Nickel and Dimed | 223 |
A Readers Guide | 241 |