Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
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- 7-12
- Genre
- Nonfiction
Year Published 2001
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 1340L
- ATOS Reading Level: Currently Not Available
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- Curricular Area
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Working poor
- Unskilled labor
- Working poor--United States
- Political Science | Political Economy
- Unskilled labor--United States
- Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations
- United States
- Minimum wage
- Minimum wage--United States
- Social Science | Poverty & Homelessness
- Poverty--United States
- Poverty
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