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Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America. by Ehrenreich, Barbara.(CARDINAL)127912;
1340LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Minimum wage; Unskilled labor;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Finding jobs : work and welfare reform / by Card, David E.(David Edward),1956-(CARDINAL)169593; Blank, Rebecca M.(CARDINAL)184955;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 533-535) and index.The labor market and welfare reform / Rebecca M. Blank, David E. Card -- The employment, earnings, and income of less skilled workers over the business cycle / Hilary W. Hoynes -- Displacement and wage effects of welfare reform / Timothy J. Bartik -- Job change and job stability among less skilled young workers / Harry J. Holzer, Robert J. LaLonde -- Wage progression among less skilled workers / Tricia Gladden, Christopher Taber -- Gender differences in the low-wage labor market /Jane Waldfogel, Susan E. Mayer -- Health insurance and less skilled workers / Janet Currie, Aaron Yelowitz -- Employee-based versus employer-based subsidies to low-wage workers: a public finance perspective / Stacy Dickert-Conlin, Douglas Holtz-Eakin -- Public service employment and mandatory work: a policy whose time has come and gone and come again? / David T. Ellwood, Elisabeth D. Welty -- Financial incentives for increasing work and income among low-income families / Rebecca M. Blank, David E. Card, Philip K. Robins -- Child care and mothers'employment decisions / Patricia M. Anderson, Phillip B. Levine -- Use of means-tested transfer programs by immigrants, their children, and their children's children / Kristin F. Butcher, Luojia Hu -- Time limits / Robert A. Moffitt, LaDonna A. Pavetti.
Subjects: Welfare recipients; Unskilled labor;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in boom-time America / by Ehrenreich, Barbara.(CARDINAL)127912;
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Subjects: Minimum wage; Poverty; Unskilled labor;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 11
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Under the same moon [videorecording] = La misma luna / by Alonso, Adrián,1994-actor.(CARDINAL)849013; Castillo, Kate del,1972-actor.(CARDINAL)848693; Derbez, Eugenio,actor.(CARDINAL)557474; Salinas, Carmen,actor.(CARDINAL)852105; Rojo, María,1943-actor.(CARDINAL)848243; Almada, Mario,actor.(CARDINAL)847709; Ferrera, America,1984-actor.(CARDINAL)543248; Barrera, Gerardo,producer.(CARDINAL)849117; Riggen, Patricia,producer,director.; Villalobos, Ligiah,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)481932; Creando Films (Firm)(CARDINAL)845970; Fidecine (Firm)(CARDINAL)849141; Fox Searchlight Pictures.(CARDINAL)341211; Potomac Pictures.(CARDINAL)849205; Weinstein Company.(CARDINAL)340085;
Director of photography, Checco Varese ; editor, Aleshka Ferrero ; music, Carlo Siliotto ; production designers, Gloria Carrasco, Carmen Giménez Cacho.Adrian Alonso, Kate del Castillo, Eugenio Derbez, Carmen Salinas, Maria Rojo, Mario Almada, America Ferrera.Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. In Mexico, her mother cares for Carlitos. Unexpected circumstances drive both Rosario and Carlitos to embark on their own journeys in a desperate attempt to reunite. Along the way, mother and son face challenges and obstacles but never lose hope that they will one day be together again.MPAA rating: PG-13; for some mature thematic elements.DVD; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Feature films.; Melodramas (Drama); Spanish language materials.; Drama.; Mothers and sons; Noncitizens; Unskilled labor; Hope;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 12
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Nickel and dimed [large print] : on (not) getting by in America / by Ehrenreich, Barbara.(CARDINAL)127912;
Subjects: Large print books.; Minimum wage; Working poor; Unskilled labor; Poverty;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Nickel and dimed [sound recording] / by Ehrenreich, Barbara.(CARDINAL)127912; McMurdo-Wallis, Cristine.;
Read by Cristine McMurdo-Wallis.Successful author Barbara Ehrenreich decides to see if she can scratch out a comfortable living in blue-collar America obsessed with welfare "reform". What she discovers is a culture of desperation, where workers often take multiple low-paying jobs just to keep a roof overhead.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Minimum wage; Working poor; Unskilled labor; Poverty;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Nickel and dimed [sound recording] on (not) getting by in America by Ehrenreich, Barbara.(CARDINAL)127912; McMurdo-Wallis, Cristine.; Recorded Books, LLC.;
Narrated by Cristine McMurdo-Wallis.To discover how others exist on minimum wage, the author leaves her home, takes the cheapest lodgings she can find, and accepts whatever jobs she's offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she works variously as a waitress, nursing home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She learned many things, including the fact that one job is not enough: you need at least two if you intend to live indoors.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Audiobooks.; Minimum wage; Poverty; Unskilled labor; Working poor;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America / by Ehrenreich, Barbara,author.(CARDINAL)127912;
Introduction: Getting ready -- Serving in Florida -- Scrubbing in Maine -- Selling in Minnesota -- Evaluation -- Afterword : Nickel and dimed -- A reader's guide.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 -- could be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on six to seven dollars an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered as a woefully inexperienced homemaker returning to the workforce. So began a grueling, hair raising, and darkly funny odyssey through the underside of working America. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, Ehrenreich worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. 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 intend to live indoors.1340L
Subjects: Minimum wage; Working poor; Unskilled labor; Poverty;
Available copies: 38 / Total copies: 61
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Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America / by Ehrenreich, Barbara,author.(CARDINAL)127912;
Includes bibliographical references.Introduction: Getting ready -- Serving in Florida -- Scrubbing in Maine -- Selling in Minnesota -- Evaluation -- Reader's guide.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 -- could be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on six to seven dollars an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered as a woefully inexperienced homemaker returning to the workforce. So began a grueling, hair raising, and darkly funny odyssey through the underside of working America. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, Ehrenreich worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. 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 intend to live indoors.1340LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Minimum wage; Unskilled labor; Poverty; Working poor;
Available copies: 17 / Total copies: 20
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Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America / by Ehrenreich, Barbara,author.(CARDINAL)127912;
Includes bibliographical references.Getting ready -- Serving in Florida -- Scrubbing in Maine -- Selling in Minnesota -- Evaluation -- Afterword : Nickel and dimed."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 workedas 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 occupationsrequire exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you intend 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 strategems for survival. Read it for the smoldering clarity of Ehrenreich's perspective and for a rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom. You will never see anything--from a motel bathroom to a restaurant meal--quite the same way again. "--
Subjects: Minimum wage; Working poor; Unskilled labor; Poverty;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 12
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