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Ehrenreich: The Fall of the American Consumer
Znet Article, March, 12 2008
Barbara Ehrenreich
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How much lower can consumer spending go? The malls are like mausoleums, retail clerks are getting laid off, and AOL recently featured on its welcome page the story of man so cheap that he recycles his dental floss -- hanging it from a nail in his ...
Ehrenreich: Unstoppable Obama
Znet Article, February, 15 2008
Barbara Ehrenreich
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When did you begin to think that Obama might be unstoppable? Was it when your grown feminist daughter started weeping inconsolably over his defeat in New Hampshire? Or was it when he triumphed in Virginia, a state still littered with Confederate m...
Ehrenreich: Hillary's Real MLK Problem
Znet Article, January, 16 2008
Barbara Ehrenreich
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The role of movements in social change.
Ehrenreich: Experts Warn of Recession -- Duh, We're Living in One Already
Znet Article, January, 12 2008
Barbara Ehrenreich
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The soothsayers have slaughtered the ox and are examining the gloppy entrails for signs: Rising unemployment, a falling dollar, weak consumer spending, the credit crisis, a swooning stock market. Could there be something wrong here? Could we actua...
Ehrenreich: Gap Kids: New Frontiers in Child Abuse
Znet Article, December, 12 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich
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It was enough to make you vomit all over your new denim jacket. The Gap has been caught using child labor in an Indian sweatshop, and not just child labor -- child slaves. As extensively reported on the news, the children, some as young as 10, wer...
Ehrenreich: Happy Fascism Awareness Week!
Znet Article, October, 23 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich
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I've never been able to explain Halloween to the kids, with its odd thematic confluence of pumpkins, candy, and death. But Halloween is a piece of pumpkin cake compared to Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, which commences today. In this special week,...
Ehrenreich: John Templeton's Universe
Znet Article, October, 14 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich
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John Templeton's Universe
Ehrenreich: The Clinton Campaign: Running on Ambien
Znet Article, October, 03 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich
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The Clinton Campaign: Running on Ambien
Ehrenreich: We Have Seen the Enemy -- And Surrendered
Znet Article, September, 29 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Bow your heads and raise the white flags. After facing down the Third Reich, the Japanese Empire, the U.S.S.R., Manuel Noriega and Saddam Hussein, the United States has met an enemy it dares not confront - the American private health insurance ind...
Ehrenreich: College Students, Welcome to a Lifetime of Debt!
Znet Article, September, 13 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Welcome to Fleece U., where our mission is to take feckless teenagers such as yourselves and turn the...
Ehrenreich: Smashing Capitalism
Znet Article, August, 22 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Somewhere in the Hamptons a high-roller is cursing his cleaning lady and shaking his fists at the lawn guys. The American poor, who are usually tactful enough to remain invisible to the multi-millionaire class, suddenly leaped onto the scene and s...
Ehrenreich: Children Deserve Veterinary Care Too
Znet Article, August, 14 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich
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This year, Americans will spend about $9...
Ehrenreich: Health Care vs. the Profit Principle
Znet Article, July, 14 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich
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It's always nice to see the President take a principled stand on something. The man formerly kno...
Ehrenreich: Who Is Hillary Clinton?
Znet Article, July, 04 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich
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One theory, which functions as a kind of cargo cult among some American liberals, is that behind the bland, smiling, exterior and the thick gauze of platitudes, crouches a fiery liberal feminist, ready, when she...
Ehrenreich: The Rich Are Making the Poor Poorer
Znet Article, June, 14 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Twenty years ago it was risky to point out the growing inequality in ...
Ehrenreich: CEOs vs. Slaves
Znet Article, June, 01 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Recent findings shed new light on the increasingl...
Ehrenreich: Your Local News -- Dateline New Delhi
Znet Article, May, 17 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich
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The world may be flat, as New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has written, but I always liked to think I was standing on a hill. N...
Ehrenreich: Will Chimp Life Get Human Rights?
Znet Article, May, 12 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Hiasl, a 26-year...
Ehrenreich: Higher Education Conformity
Znet Article, May, 03 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Can you be fired for doing a great job, year after year, and in fact becoming nationally known f...
Ehrenreich: Circuit City Slaughter
Znet Article, April, 13 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Circuit City Slaughter
Ehrenreich: The Jet Blue Blues
Znet Article, February, 27 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich
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The Jet Blue Blues
Ehrenreich: 'Miami Vice': The Class Analysis
Znet Article, August, 16 2006
Barbara Ehrenreich
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The film's bleak vision of a world divided between shanty-towns and trailer parks at one end, and unimaginable luxury at the other, is not far off the mark. Everyone knows that the new big-screen "Miami Vice" is "darker" than the old one, meaning...
Ehrenreich: A Guided Tour of Class in America
Znet Article, June, 04 2006
Barbara Ehrenreich
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You turn into a middle-class, suburban housing project on the periphery of Charlottesville, Virginia, and at a row of attached homes, you pull up in front of the one with the yellow "for sale" sign on the tiny patch of grass. Ushered inside, you t...
Ehrenreich: Kleenex Workers
Znet Article, April, 28 2006
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Was it only three years ago that some of our puffed up patriots were denouncing the French as “cheese-eating surrender monkeys,†too fattened on Camembert to stub out their Gaulois and get down with the war on Iraq? Well, take anot...
Ehrenreich: Tiny Labor
Znet Article, July, 27 2005
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Tiny Labor
Ehrenreich: Longevity Crisis? Kill Grandma
Znet Article, June, 12 2005
Barbara Ehrenreich
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A specter is stalking the Western world, and it looks a lot like Grandma. As President Bush has repeatedly put it, the problem with Social Security is that "baby boomers will be living longer." Not "too" long, he's careful to say, but long enough ...
Ehrenreich: The Faith Factor
Znet Article, November, 12 2004
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Of all the loathsome spectacles we've endured since November 2--the vampire-like gloating of CNN commentator Robert Novak, Bush embracing his "mandate"--none are more repulsive than that of Democrats conceding the "moral values" edge to the party ...
Ehrenreich: Their George and Ours
Znet Article, July, 05 2004
Barbara Ehrenreich
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When they first heard the Declaration of Independence in July of 1776, New Yorkers were so electrified that they toppled a statue of King George III and had it melted down to make 42,000 bullets for the war. Two hundred twenty-eight years later, y...
Ehrenreich: A uterus is no substitute for a conscience
Znet Article, May, 21 2004
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Even those people we might have thought were impervious to shame, like the secretary of Defense, admit that the photos of abuse in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison turned their stomachs. The photos did something else to me, as a feminist: They broke my h...
Ehrenreich: Bush's Warfare State
Znet Article, March, 30 2004
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Here's one way our President proposes to "support our troops": According to his 2005 budget, the extra pay our soldiers receive for serving in combat zones--about $150 a month--will no longer count against their food stamp eligibility. This budget...
