Download or read book Nickel and Dimed written by Barbara Ehrenreich and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job—any job—can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you int to live indoors. Nickel and Dimed reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity—a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Read it for the smoldering clarity of Ehrenreich's perspective and for a rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom. And now, in a new foreword, Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, explains why, twenty years on in America, Nickel and Dimed is more relevant than ever.

Download or read book Nickel and Dime written by Gary Soto and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the lives of three Hispanic men living in Oakland.

Download or read book Where a Nickel Costs a Dime written by Willie Perdomo and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems offer a direct look at the harshness of urban life, including drugs, AIDS, and violence

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Download or read book Nickeled and Dimed to Death written by Denise Swanson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In New York Times bestselling author Denise Swanson’s “slightly zany”* new mystery series, Devereaux Sinclair loves running her old-fashioned store in her small Missouri hometown. If only murder didn’t keep landing on her doorstep… Dev’s five-and-dime may be doing well, but her love life is in turmoil. She’s torn between Deputy U.S. Marshal Jake Del Vecchio, who is on an undercover assignment, and her ex-beau Noah Underwood, the local doctor from a high-society family. So she welcomes the distraction when Elise Whitmore offers her a great deal on antique chocolate molds that would be perfect for her Easter gift baskets. But do the molds actually belong to Elise’s soon-to-be ex-husband? In buying them, has Dev committed a felony? When Elise is found shot to death, the mystery deepens—and Dev’s good friend Boone, who discovered the body, is taken into custody. With the help of her best buds, Dev must clear Boone’s name and find the real killer. Good thing that when it comes to amateur sleuths, they broke the mold with Dev Sinclair. *Library Journal

Download or read book Nickel and Dime Your Way to Wealth written by Deborah Owens and published by . This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NPR host Deborah Owens (Real Money) shares the remarkable story of Mr. Earl, who accumulated a small fortune despite his tiny income and minimal education. His journey to financial security inspires others to build wealth on any income.

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Download or read book 2022 Jefferson Nickel and Roosevelt Dime Error Coin Guide written by Stan McDonald and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-06-18 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2022 Jefferson Nickel and Roosevelt Dime Error Coin Guide include minor error types not usually encapsulated and additional variations not found in other coin guides. No other guide has over 2,000 validated error listings, which give the collector the edge in buying and selling coins. Presented in this guide: - Complete error descriptions and photos- A detailed description of mint error classifications with photographs. - Modern-day photographs of error coins. Listings in this book include: - Die errors - Errors created from broken dies, collars, misaligned dies, cuds, die cracks, DDO, DDR, off-center, and more. - Planchet errors - cracked, clips, defective, wrong stock, lamination, unplated, wrong metal, etc. - Striking errors - Errors caused in the minting process - bonded, broadstruck, brockage, clashed dies, double struck, indent, flip over, uniface, and more. The 2022 edition has hundreds of new listings, an expanded glossary, and additional error types with full descriptions and photos. The US error coin error guide is the fastest-growing bookseller on the market providing collectors the benefit from the most extensive listings available. Every year since 2010, this guide has doubled in sales. The number of listings with a wide price range makes this book number one in its class. The author provides a response email address for quick answers to all collecting questions which no other book author provides.

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Download or read book 2021 Jefferson Nickel and Roosevelt Dime Error Coin Guide written by Stan C McDonald and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the Jefferson Nickel and Roosevelt Dime Error Coin Guide for 2021. The wide range of auction prices paid for error coins makes this guide necessary for a collector to evaluate, encapsulate, or purchase an error coin. There are three significant categories of coin errors: - Planchet errors - clipped planchets - elliptical, fragment, ragged, tapered, thin, and thick. Wrong planchet, foreign planchet - Die errors - broken dies, collars, and doubled dies, - Striking errors - Bonded, broadstruck, brockage, clashed dies, cracks, double struck, indent, flip over, and much more. After 20 years, this coin guide remains unsurpassed and the most comprehensive error coin guide available. No other guide has the number of error listings and error types as presented in this guide. Even with the US Mint using the best technology for producing billions of Jefferson nickels and Roosevelt dimes, there are still modern-day errors in circulation. The wear and tear on the dies, the dies' reworking, and malfunctions in the minting process create many mint errors escaping detection.With so many error coin listings in this book, it would be a significant challenge to add photographs for each error. Error definitions with photos in this guide show the types of errors that can occur and should represent most errors.

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Download or read book Quarters Dimes Nickels Pennies written by Baila Olidort and published by Merkos Linyonei Chinuch. This book was released on 1993 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David cannot understand how filling his charity box with coins will help poor people until his mother takes him downtown to deliver the money to a soup kitchen.

Download or read book Living with a Wild God written by Barbara Ehrenreich and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed comes a brave, frank, and exquisitely written memoir that will change the way you see the world. Barbara Ehrenreich is one of the most important thinkers of our time. Educated as a scientist, she is an author, journalist, activist, and advocate for social justice. In LIVING WITH A WILD GOD, she recounts her quest-beginning in childhood-to find "the Truth" about the universe and everything else: What's really going on? Why are we here? In middle age, she rediscovered the journal she had kept during her tumultuous adolescence, which records an event so strange, so cataclysmic, that she had never, in all the intervening years, written or spoken about it to anyone. It was the kind of event that people call a "mystical experience"-and, to a steadfast atheist and rationalist, nothing less than shattering. In LIVING WITH A WILD GOD, Ehrenreich reconstructs her childhood mission, bringing an older woman's wry and erudite perspective to a young girl's impassioned obsession with the questions that, at one point or another, torment us all. The result is both deeply personal and cosmically sweeping-a searing memoir and a profound reflection on science, religion, and the human condition. With her signature combination of intellectual rigor and uninhibited imagination, Ehrenreich offers a true literary achievement-a work that has the power not only to entertain but amaze.

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