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Hunger, homelessness and sickness are all things that most people would associate with a third world country. This is however the underground society of the U.S. There are hungry and homeless people here at home and the worst thing about it is they are not bums on the street. They are hard working people with full time jobs and quite often an extra part time job on top of that. To just get a glimpse of this is one thing but one girl decided to take it one step further and she joined the life of these people for a short time and then she wrote a book about it. After a thorough reading of her book Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich very clearly conveys the sad state that these minimum wage workers are living in. There are many hardships on these people working minimum wage jobs. First there is the problem of getting a job. Take applying at Wal-Mart for example. When Barbara went undercover in Minnesota she applied at Wal-Mart. The application process is overly painstaking. They first make you go through