What was the "welfare reform" action that sparked Ehrenreich's interest in situations of the working poor? A.
Welfare reform denied benefits to women with children over the age of five years.
B.
75% of Florida mothers on welfare had recently been denied benefits.
C.
Four million women were about to be "booted" off welfare and into a labor market where they could only hope to make $6 or $7 per hour.
D.
Ten million married women with children, and incomes below the poverty level were denied benefits because their husbands weren't working.
E.
The estimate that the odds against a typical welfare recipient’s landing a job at the new hourly living wage of would be about 97 to 1 under the reform.