![]() ![]() ![]() Barbara grew up in a relatively comfortable environment, but all the previous generations of her family were working-class miners, and poverty has been close enough to her that she clings gratefully to her comfortable, flexible writing job. If she can’t, she’ll quit and start over in the next place. She speculates what it would be like to actually try to live on the minimum wage, and says that some enterprising journalist should try to do it-not thinking that the editor will say it should be her.Īs her book project takes shape, she plans to spend a month in each of three places-Key West, Portland, Maine, and Minneapolis-intending to see if she can reach the end of the month with enough money to pay the next month’s rent. She’s often written about poverty, and at the moment the book opens, millions of Americans are about to leave welfare as the 1996 welfare reform legislation kicks in. Nickel and Dimed opens with Barbara Ehrenreich, a writer and journalist from Key West, Florida, at a lunch with her editor discussing pitches and article ideas. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |