"Nickel and Dimed" is a very interesting story. Barbara Ehrenreich tells of her experiences during her experiment in exploring what low-wage life is like. She finds herself a job and apartment efficiency using none of the things that makes her she is. In putting herself in the experiment she is better able to understand the lower class lifestyle.
             Many often just observe low-wage life, and are only able to comment on what they see. In turn they are not able to fully explain the actual complications thoroughly. With her living in the situation she was able to get the people around her to feel safe around her and tell her how their actual living arrangements were. Others who try to understand this same poverty way of life have a harder time understanding it and getting others to share their problems.
             With Barbara convincing others that she was not any better off than they were she made bonds. Because they were not afraid that she was a social service representative they told her how bad their life was. She got people to tell of how they lived in their cars or horrible buildings, not counting the ones that stay in motels. Because of their tales as well as hers people will believe how bad it is.
             She finds that with only having a high school diploma she can only pull a waitress job and later a cleaning job at a hotel. She works hard at the waitress job making only two dollars and forty-three cent an hour with tips, but when she counts up her money and realize that she is going to the short for rent she searches for second employment to keep from living in her car. This idea not only shows how hard life is, but how important higher education is.
             If Barbara let her real credentials become known she would have gotten a better job. It is funny how that works even though people without higher education could possibly pull off better jobs no one gives them a chance to find out. But her way of doing this creates a more realist...