UM Sociology Thoughts the Ehrenreich Nickel and Dimed Reading Essay

Instructions

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• Read the selections from Ehrenreich’s Nickle & Dimed, and your choice of either Gautie and Ponthieux’s Employment and the Working Poor or Smith’s Job-Finding Among The Poor: Do Social Ties Matter?

• Submit free-form essay on work and poverty. Be sure that your essay contains no fewer than one full page of text, and is double-spaced in Arial 12pt font with 1 inch margins.  You may upload in .doc, .docx or .pdf format.  No other formats will be accepted.

• Post in at least two of the Discussions for the week and reply to some of your classmates

Choose two prompts from the following list and answer them in at least five sentences each.  Clearly list which prompt you are responding to.  Stating the prompt you will respond to does not count as a sentence of the five minimum requirement. 

Prompt 1 – For this prompt, you will respond with your thoughts on at least one section of the Ehrenreich Nickled and Dimed reading.

Prompt 2 – For this prompt, you will respond with your thoughts on the the Gautie and Ponthieux Employment and the Working Poor article.

Prompt 3 – For this prompt, you will respond with your thoughts on the the Smith Job-Finding Among the Poor: Do Social Ties Matter? article.

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