Summary Barbara Ehrenreich has an idea for a book, to go undercover and see how a person can live on six or seven dollars an hour. She starts in Florida at a restaurant called "Hearthside" working as a waitress at only $2.43 an hour plus tips. She discovers that most of her coworkers either live with their parents, boyfriends or in hotel rooms and she herself lives in a small apartment. In order to pay her rent, she takes another job at a restaurant named "Jerry's" as a waitress and works from eight in the morning to ten at night. Barbara decides to quit at hearthside at work only at Jerry's, ...

• Word Count: 2617
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School