IRB Intro Post #2

My next IRB is a book that I've been looking forward to reading since the beginning of the year. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich explores the problem of poverty in America through an investigation where the author, as an journalist undercover, observes how the working class was affected by the 1996 welfare reform act. Poverty is not only a huge problem but also something that people outside of the working class can't fully perceive unless they have been in the poor's shoes, so this feels like a very interesting read, as I was told by former APELC students who read this book.