However, the speech was not recognized by the union. Although the speech was not successful in college, the book was read by low-wage workers and the upper class. She received many emails from people who had read the book. Some people thought that poor people just didn't eat healthily and that people with jobs made more than $10 an hour. Ehrenreich showed in his text that poor people cannot afford to eat healthily, cannot afford health insurance or pay for utilities due to low wages. In this book, she showed letters from poor people to show society that poverty persists and that it is a social problem (Ehrenreich, 2001, p. 226 to