TY - BOOK AU - Ehrenreich,Barbara TI - Nickel and dimed SN - 13: 9780805063899 Pbk., Bp. AV - HD 4918 E37 2001 ASA PY - 2001/// CY - New York : PB - A Metropolitan KW - Minimum wage KW - United States KW - Working poor KW - Unskilled labor KW - Poverty N1 - Read by Cristine McMurdo-Wallis N2 - Successful author Barbara Ehrenreich decides to see if she can scratch out a comfortable living in blue-collar America obsessed with welfare "reform". What she discovers is a culture of desperation, where workers often take multiple low-paying jobs just to keep a roof overhead ER -