Can you Survive?

In Barbara Ehrenreich's article, "Nickel-and-Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America," she lives in the place of an article she wants to write about. I very much disagree with her because i think that just because there are low paying jobs out there, she did not find all the ways of getting help to be able to live on a low wage paying job. I feel that she did not live in the way of a low paying job life for long enough to figure out that there is alot of help out there from different programs. I guess the main reason why I have to disagree with her is because I have lived my whole life seeing my parents make low wages on their jobs and they still seemed to get by, with some bumps along the way. In Kernaghan's "Pennies an Hour and No Way Up," he talks about sweat shops and all the conditions that are involved with them. I think that it is good that people write about these issues, but I think that the fact that they exist is just wrong. There is no reason why a country would have to employ their population on such low wages. I think that Barb should take a look around and see that her experience could have been worse in a different place. Sweat shops may be wrong, but all in all, they help out the american economy and that is why many people do not say much about them.