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Originally Posted by tomwed
A friend of mine teaches Biology at Lawrenceville Prep in NJ.
The 2014-2015 tuition charge for boarding students is $55,350, for day students, $45,780. In addition, there is a required medical fee of $785 for boarders and $490 for day students, and a technology fee of $485 for boarders and $330 for day students.
She teaches in the HS but it's the same tuition for K-8 too.
The students, for the most part are the children of Princeton parents.
I remember in 2002 everyone who could read had to read Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America is a book written by Barbara Ehrenreich.
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"When someone works for less pay than she can live on ... she has made a great sacrifice for you .... The "working poor" ... are in fact the major philanthropists of our society. They neglect their own children so that the children of others will be cared for; they live in substandard housing so that other homes will be shiny and perfect; they endure privation so that inflation will be low and stock prices high. To be a member of the working poor is to be an anonymous donor, a nameless benefactor, to everyone. (p. 221)"
I read it too. I don't think it changed my life but it got me thinking. I hope it changed their lives. |
Yay, tomwed. It was good. There is another, better one on the subject, and I am struggling to remember the title. It's better because it followed actual, real-life situations of some working people at the poverty level, and their struggles to survive, and the many catch-22 situations they were put in because of their jobs. Dang. I'll think of it.
I believe the book is called
The Working Poor: Invisible In America, by David Shipler From a review:
Shipler shows how liberals and conservatives are both partly right–that practically every life story contains failure by both the society and the individual. Braced by hard fact and personal testimony, he unravels the forces that confine people in the quagmire of low wages. And unlike most works on poverty, this book also offers compelling portraits of employers struggling against razor-thin profits and competition from abroad. With pointed recommendations for change that challenge both parties (my ed.), The Working Poor stands to make a difference.