Nickel and Dimed and Quartered

by Russ Roberts on November 23, 2004

A friend of mine asked me the other day about Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich’s experience as a low wage worker trying to make ends meet. She has a tough time. It’s not easy living on the minimum wage. It’s particularly hard to support a family of four on $10,000 a year. My friend wanted to know how a classical liberal devoted to limited government would view the challenge of the working poor. More