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Ehrenreich: What The Author Of ‘Nickel And Dimed’ Thinks About Minnesota’s Minimum Wage
Znet Article, May, 12 2013
Barbara Ehrenreich
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“When I speak to college students reading “Nickel and Dimed” – written 12 years ago -- I tell them, ‘Those were the good old days’"
Ehrenreich: That Can't Be
Znet Article, November, 05 2012
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Interview on the economic gap between poor and rich today
Ehrenreich: Preying on the Poor
Znet Article, May, 18 2012
Barbara Ehrenreich
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How government and corporations use the poor as piggy banks
Ehrenreich: Rediscovering Poverty
Znet Article, March, 16 2012
Barbara Ehrenreich
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If we look closely enough, we’ll have to conclude that poverty is not, after all, a cultural aberration or a character flaw. Poverty is a shortage of money
Ehrenreich: The Making of the American 99% and the Collapse of the Middle Class
Znet Article, December, 16 2011
Barbara Ehrenreich
Ehrenreich's ZSpace page
Once an American starts to slip downward, a variety of forces kick in to help accelerate the slide
Ehrenreich: Rich People are Being ‘Demonized’ for Flaunting their Wealth. Poor Dears!
Znet Article, October, 02 2011
Barbara Ehrenreich
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The latest group to claim victim status is the rich
Ehrenreich: We Need Not Just Jobs, But Jobs That Pay
Znet Article, August, 17 2011
Barbara Ehrenreich
Ehrenreich's ZSpace page
The answer depends not just on the number of people out of work but on the quality of jobs being offered
Ehrenreich: Turning Poverty into an American Crime
Znet Article, August, 10 2011
Barbara Ehrenreich
Ehrenreich's ZSpace page
Excerpt from Nickel and Dimed (2011 version)
Ehrenreich: On the Job Crisis & Wealth Gap
Znet Article, August, 09 2011
Barbara Ehrenreich
Ehrenreich's ZSpace page
Jobs that don’t pay enough to live on do not cure poverty
Ehrenreich: A Call To Protest Ignites A Call To Arms
Znet Article, January, 27 2011
Barbara Ehrenreich
Ehrenreich's ZSpace page
Threaten the Greeks with job losses and benefit cuts and they tie up Athens, but take away Americans' jobs...
Ehrenreich: Our Maniacal Optimism Is Ruining the World
Znet Article, December, 14 2009
Barbara Ehrenreich
Ehrenreich's ZSpace page
In her new book Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America, Barbara Ehrenreich traces the origins of contemporary optimism from nineteenth-century healers to twentieth-century pushers of consumerism. She...
Ehrenreich: Not So Pretty in Pink
Znet Article, December, 04 2009
Barbara Ehrenreich
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The Uproar Over New Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines
Ehrenreich: The Swine Flu Vaccine Screw-up
Znet Article, November, 04 2009
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Optimism as a Public Health Problem
Ehrenreich: Are Women Getting Sadder?
Znet Article, October, 14 2009
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Or Are We All Just Getting a Lot More Gullible?
Ehrenreich: The Destruction of the Black Middle Class
Znet Article, August, 04 2009
Barbara Ehrenreich
Ehrenreich's ZSpace page
To judge from most of the commentary on the Gates-Crowley affair, you would think that a "black elite" has gotten dangerously out of hand. First Gates (Cambridge, Yale, Harvard) showed insufficient deference to Crowley, then Obama (Occidental, Har...
Ehrenreich: Change Socialists Can Believe In
Znet Article, May, 23 2009
Barbara Ehrenreich
Ehrenreich's ZSpace page
We are honored by the many fascinating and challenging responses to our essay, and we are happy to have a chance to clarify and expand on it. If there was one misunderstanding--for which we, of course, take responsibility--it is that we announced ...
Ehrenreich: Use Jobless Time to Build Better World
Znet Article, May, 12 2009
Barbara Ehrenreich
Ehrenreich's ZSpace page
In most parts of the world, mass unemployment brings the specter of mass social unrest. Not in the U.S., though, where 13 million people have accepted joblessness with nary a peep of protest.
Fletcher jr.: Reimagining Socialism
Znet Article, March, 07 2009
Bill Fletcher jr.
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Essay on need for Socialist vision...
Ehrenreich: Reimagining Socialism
Znet Article, March, 07 2009
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Essay on need for Socialist vision...
Ehrenreich: My Unwitting Role in Acts of Torture
Znet Article, February, 22 2009
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Our 1979 satire was not subtle. Yet Mohamed's life was destroyed, it seems, for having read it.
Ehrenreich: Corporate America, Ground Your Jets
Znet Article, February, 21 2009
Barbara Ehrenreich
Ehrenreich's ZSpace page
If anything symbolizes the excesses and inequalities of the last few years, it's the private Learjet or Gulfstream. While the masses take off their shoes and line up for security screening, high-fliers inhabit a parallel transportation universe ch...
Ehrenreich: Rich Get Poorer, Poor Disappear
Znet Article, January, 14 2009
Barbara Ehrenreich
Ehrenreich's ZSpace page
Ever on the lookout for the bright side of hard times, I am tempted to delete “class inequality†from my worry list. Less than a year ago, it was the one of the biggest economic threats on the horizon, with even hard line conservative pundits ...
Ehrenreich: Report from the Socialist International Conspiracy
Znet Article, October, 22 2008
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Surely you have heard by now of the imminent socialist takeover of America, and if you find the prospect unlikely, ask yourself: How many socialists do you know who lost millions in the recent stock market crashes? Just as I thought -- none -- and...
Ehrenreich: Communist Manifesto Turns 160
Znet Article, October, 05 2008
Barbara Ehrenreich
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This year marks the 160th anniversary of The Communist Manifesto and capitalism -- a k a "free enterprise" -- seems willing to observe the occasion by dropping dead...
Ehrenreich: Suicide Solution
Znet Article, July, 30 2008
Barbara Ehrenreich
Ehrenreich's ZSpace page
A few days before Congress passed its Housing Bill, Carlene Balderrama of Taunton, MA found her own solution to the housing crisis. Just a little over two hours in advance of the time her mortgage company, PHH Mortgage Corporation -- may its nam...
Ehrenreich: Liposuction: The Key to Energy Independence
Znet Article, June, 23 2008
Barbara Ehrenreich
Ehrenreich's ZSpace page
Everyone talks about our terrible dependency on oil -- foreign and otherwise -- but hardly anyone mentions what it is. Fossil fuel, all right, but whose fossils? Mostly tiny plants called diatoms, but quite possibly a few Barney-like creatures wen...
Ehrenreich: Hillary’s Gift to Women
Znet Article, May, 12 2008
Barbara Ehrenreich
Ehrenreich's ZSpace page
In Friday’s New York Times, Susan Faludi rejoiced over Hillary Clinton’s destruction of the myth of female prissiness and innate moral superiority, hailing Clinton’s “no-holds-barred pugnacity” and her media reputation as “nasty” and “ruthless.” F...
Ehrenreich: Truckers Take Their Case to the Capitol
Znet Article, April, 30 2008
Barbara Ehrenreich
Ehrenreich's ZSpace page
Truckers live in an alternative dimension, at least so I conclude when trying to figure out how to meet up with the convoy of trucks coming into to DC to protest high diesel fuel prices on Monday. JB, a k a Mike Schaffner, one of the organizers of...
Ehrenreich: Truckers Hit the Brakes
Znet Article, April, 11 2008
Barbara Ehrenreich
Ehrenreich's ZSpace page
Until the beginning of this month, Americans seemed to have nothing to say about their ongoing economic ruin except, "Hit me! Please, hit me again!" You can take my house, but let me mow the lawn for you one more time before you repossess. Take my...
Hayden: Progressives for Obama
Znet Article, March, 28 2008
Tom Hayden
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We descend from the proud tradition of independent social movements that have made America a more just and democratic country...
