Ehrenreich is writing in a time of relative economic strength (a far cry from today’s environment), and she describes how the rich and poor compete over land or housing the more rich people there are, the more land they can buy up. The nation’s general increase in prosperity, moreover, is actually hurting the poor. She is led to conclude that a very simple, but serious, problem exists: rent is too high and pay too low. “I didn’t do half-bad at the work itself,” she writes, “but my track record in the survival department is far less admirable than my performance as a job-holder.” She concludes that “rent was the deal-breaker” it was simply too hard to find shelter for prices Ehrenreich could afford on her meager salaries. Ehrenreich considers how she performed, as though judging a stage-act.
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