The speech, however, was not recognized by the union. Although the speech was not victorious in college, the book was read by low-wage workers and the upper class. He received many emails from people who read the book. Some people assumed that poor people simply don't eat healthily and that people in commercial jobs earn more than $10 an hour. Ehrenreich demonstrated in his text that poor people do not have the means to eat healthily, cannot pay for health insurance or utilities due to low wages. In this book, he exposed letters from poor people to show society that poverty is happening, and this is a social problem (Ehrenreich, 2001, p. 226 a