Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America and other books.

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It Is Expensive to Be Poor

Minimum-wage jobs are physically demanding, have unpredictable schedules, and pay so meagerly that workers can’t save up enough to move on.
- Barbara Ehrenreich
- January 13, 2014
Labors Lost
- Barbara Ehrenreich
- September 1987 Issue
Accidental Suicide
- Barbara Ehrenreich
- October 1986 Issue
Poor Mom

The Plight of Poor Women in Affluent America by Ruth Sidel. Viking, $16.95.
- Barbara Ehrenreich
- April 1986 Issue

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