Nickel and Dimed was a good book. I really enjoyed reading it. I really like that on some pages, at the bottom, there would be a little explation of what she was talking about in that page. The topic the author, Barbara Ehrenreich chose to write about was very interesting. Every one knows that poverty exsists but to actually go out there and face the struggles and challenges a poor person has to face most of been really hard for a middle class person. Even though she did a good job during her research, i felt that maybe she could of gone farther past her comfort zone. In the first few pages she talks about how she will take the lowest cost of housing for her standards. This is not the case for poor people. They have to take whatever is available no matter how run down and unsafe it could be. Alos she said that she will never miss a meal and as soon as things started to get bad with money she would just quit that assignment and move on to the next. This is not a option that poor people have. Sometimes they do have to skip a meal to make ends meet. She would of been able to get a better perspective if she would of went through the whole aspects of being poor, not just the finding work and house part of it.
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