This book is excellent and should be required reading for all highschool students as a good idea of where one may end up without a college education. I applaud Barbara for her guts to go do the job of actually living the life of the working poor. What better way to truly understand and report, loud and clear, the true nitty-gritty" circumstances of those without advantages or knowledge of how to get beyond the low wage rut.
Her humor is marvelous and helps get a message across of just how ridiculous the beauracracies can be. She is laughing in disbelief at what employers can get away with and what low income workers must deal with simply for the sake of survival.
How refreshing to read something honest as opposed to many supposed motivating and "feel good" articles, we find these days, on how to work more, try harder, reach that impossilbe dream, which more often than not for many people is exactly that: impossible and just a dream.