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Nickel and Dimed?is a book disclosing the lower class life of Americans by Barbara Ehrenreich. With her own experiences working as a low wage worker in three states--Florida, Maine, and Minnesota—for one month each, she describes what she discovers and feels being a low class worker.?In the first place Key West, Florida, she gets a job as a waitress in a small restaurant then she quits and goes to a bigger restaurant for higher payment. But this does not help in her financial problem—the income is not enough for her to pay the rent of her lodging trailer. This is not the only thing upsets her: managers only concern about the interest of the restaurant but ignore their workers’ demand. At last she gets another job as hotel maid in the same company, but only for one day’s work she feels that’s too physically for her to have two jobs. The second day she quits both job as she could not bear the working condition.?Things does not go better after she moves to another city—Portland in Maine. Rent is still a problem but a lodging place must be found. Payments for low wage workers are still similarly low as that in Key West. With the experience in Key West, she decides to get two staggered jobs, which will earn her enough money but not too physically demanding. But other problems continue to bother her: tetter cost her some money to buy creams; her kindness is repaid with ingratitude; and the hard work for attempt to get some social assistance only gain her some food which worth 7.07 dollar, costing her 2.8 dollar for telephone service…. When she decides to leave, she tells some workmates about what she was really doing there. But none cares about that.?Again she moves, to Minnesota. There she becomes a “softlines” worker at Wal-Mart and gets a free lodge at first and then move to an affordable hotel to live. Except tiring repeating non-skill work and strict working regulations, everything seems well here. But when a piece of strike news is broadcasting, she tries to encoura