![]() It is outrageous that the wages are not high enough to get basic necessities for one person, let alone two people or a family. Real low wage workers do not have money to fall back on. By having to dip into her emergency fund proves her point even more. ![]() Barbara Ehrenreich had to dip into her emergency fund more than one time to support herself. She could not afford all together a place to live, food and other necessities she needed to provide for herself. She tried living off of the money she acquired working the low wage jobs, but had an account of money for emergencies. She showed wages were too low to provide for themselves or families and she proved the amount of effort put into the job was not worth the money they received per hour, by attempting to work several different low wage jobs herself.īarbara Ehrenreich worked different low wage jobs during her story Nickel and Dimed. In my opinion, Barbara Ehrenreich proved her two points in her story Nickel and Dimed. She also tried to prove low wage jobs require a lot of effort that was not worth the amount of money they received per hour. Barbara Ehrenreich sought to prove wages for low class workers are too low for them to provide for themselves or families. ![]()
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