globeandmail.com : Maid for a Month

This is must-read series of articles written by a Canadian journalist who went undercover for a month as a maid. The journalist, a well-to-do woman who lives in a posh neighborhood and has a housekeeper, decided to investigate what it would be like to live on the Canadian minimum wage. Accompanied by her two sons, she finds out how hard it is to get by on a minimum-wage job.

Start with the first article in the series near the bottom, "The Great Experiment Begins", followed by the second article, "Living a Minimum-Wage Existence", until you reach the fifth and last article at the top, "Maid for a Month: Goodbye to All That". Then look at the link to pictures at the very bottom of the page, "In Pictures: Living the Low-Income Life".