Nickle and Dimed

I believe Barbara Ehrenreich did a great job on her book "Nickel and Dimed." Even though I didn't finish reading it yet, I believe her decision to do this type of investigative reporting is awesome, a hands on experience. The task must have been difficult for her, specially on a personal level. Now, this type of work is great to show the government that we, the people, are in great need of policies and social programs updates. Obviously, living under a minimum or low wage income is not fun, but rather a hard and difficult lifestyle, one that can make any human being fall into depression or desperation. Just like the horrible and recent case of the husband and wife with five kids who killed themselves because they lost their jobs at Kaiser Permanente. Even though government agencies step forth to announce that there are programs that can help families to get through this hard economic times, maybe it is time they realize that it is not true. I understand that anyway there is no justifiable reason under a right state of mind to commit such an act like suicide, they probably didn't want to live the miserable life of the unemployed or low wage income. I believe that case was only one of the many happening on a daily basis in our country, and that is a consequence of an incompetent system that is failing and has been failing for a long time. This book should be translated to other languages, so people in third world countries can finally see the reality of the United States of America: that everything is far from perfect here. I'm going to keep reading this book to keep understanding the reality of a lot of people in this country.