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"Pennies an Hour and No Way Up"
After reading "Pennies and Hour and No Way Up", I was shocked and surprised at the conditions in which these people were forced to live in due to very low work wages. It hurt me to hear that they had to live in cellars with raw sewage and stuff like that. Something else that shocked me was that the young girls who work over in Bangladesh were only being paid like 1.6 cents for every hat that they sewed. I just don't understand how they can live off of these wages especially if they have families to care for.

"Nickel-and-Dimed: On (Not)Getting By in America"
After reading this story, I can't say that I feel exactly what they are going through because I have never been there but I hurt for the many who do live in these conditions. I do not understand how they survive off of how much money that they make a month. It was sad to read the story and see that these people have to live paycheck to paycheck and are not financially stable/comfortable.