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- U.S. economic policymakers rarely have had experience in trying to live on low-wage employment. Do you think their actions as policymakers would be influenced of they had the opportunity to have the experiences Barbara Ehrenreich did in her "experiment"?
- What are some of your own assumptions about poverty? How does Cassie Stromer's experience (as described in Susan Sheehan's article) affirm or challenge these assumptions? How is your reaction impacted by your own class position?
References
https://rampages.us/goldstein2015pe/wp-content/uploads/sites/4918/2015/01/ehrenriech-nickel-dimed.pdf
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/10/25/not-poor-enough
