Multiple Choice
The best-selling book by Barbara Ehrenreich, with the appropriate title Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America, reflects her experience of spending the better part of a year actually working in six different low-wage jobs trying to make ends meet during this time. What did she find was the most pressing concern of the working poor?
A) Finding affordable housing and healthcare
B) Getting suitable education for their children
C) Having to work seventy hours a week just to get by
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