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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them, inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that any job equals a better life. But how can anyone survive, let alone prosper, on six to seven dollars an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich moved from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, taking the cheapest lodgings available and accepting work as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, nursing home aide, and Wal-Mart salesperson. She soon discovered that even the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dclowliest\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 occupations require exhausting mental and physical efforts. And one job is not enough; you need at least two if you intend to live indoors.<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

My favorite quote of the book comes from a passage where she relates going to a Christian tent revival meeting somewhere in Maine just to escape her cramped apartment on a Saturday night, and to her it \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sounds like the perfect entertainment for an atheist out on her own.<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the quote:<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The preaching goes on, interrupted with dutiful \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcamens.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 It would be nice if someone would read this sad-eyed crowd the Sermon on the Mount, accompanied by a rousing commentary on income inequality and the need for a hike in the minimum wage. But Jesus makes his appearance here only as a corpse; the living man, the wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist, is never once mentioned, nor anything he ever had to say. Christ crucified rules, and it may be that the true business of modern Christianity is to crucify him again and again so that he can never get a word out of his mouth. I would like to stay around for the speaking in tongues<\/a>, should it occur, but the mosquitoes, worked into a frenzy by all this talk of His blood, are launching a full-scale attack. I get up to leave, timing my exit for when the preacher\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s metronomic head movements have him looking the other way, and walk out to search for my car, half expecting to find Jesus out there in the dark, gagged and tethered to a tent pole<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (p. 69).<\/p>\n

I found it a sometimes sad, sometimes funny, sometimes fascinating but always shocking book. I think we need to hear her scathing critique on popular forms of Christianity that neglect the issues of justice. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got to read it.<\/p>\n

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