About This Show
How can anyone survive on $5.15 an hour? To find out, journalist Barbara Ehrenreich abandoned her middle-class lifestyle and took minimum-wage jobs around the country. While waiting tables, cleaning houses and stocking shelves she quickly discovered that behind countless aprons and uniforms are the borderline homeless, struggling – and often failing – to feed, clothe and house their families. With a potent combination of humor and passion, the story of her experience is changing the way America perceives its working poor.
