Ehrenreich concluding two chapters focus largely on the affordable housing troubles the poor face in the economy today. For myself, I worked at a street newspaper called Spare Change News in Cambridge, MA which focused on the issues facing the homeless by writing on current affordable housing news. What was incredible about the organization was that it also employed the homeless as vendors and writers, so that as they bought a newspaper for 25 cents, they would sell it for a dollar and keep the difference as a method of income. By being exposed to these people without homes and listening to their real accounts, it allowed me to get a deeper understanding of Ehrenreich’s concerns regarding the minimum wage worker. The criminalizing and stigmatizing of America’s poor is terrible, true and omnipresent. It isn’t only legal action that is necessary for conditions to improve, but also the social mindset.