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Journalist Tests Life on Wal-Mart Wages
Listen* to author Barbara Ehrenreich talk about her book, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America.
Journalist Tests Life on Wal-Mart Wages
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Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, Ehrenreich took the cheapest lodgings she could find and worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing home aide and a Wal-Mart sales clerk to explore how feasible the welfare-to-work programs could be.
She quickly discovered that no job is really unskilled, and that even a Ph.D couldn't figure out how to make ends meet. (9 minutes)
National Public Radio, Weekend Edition, (May 19, 2001)
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