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Nickel and Dimed Author Brought Attention to Life on $7 an Hour

Barbara Ehrenreich worked undercover at Walmart, as a waitress, and cleaning houses

(Newser) - Barbara Ehrenreich, a journalist who worked a series of poorly paying jobs undercover to learn what life is like for people trying to exist on minimum wage, died Thursday. The author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America was 81 and died of a stroke in Alexandria,...

Author Tweets About Marie Kondo, Twitter Erupts

Barbara Ehrenreich's post about Kondo not speaking English called racist, xenophobic

(Newser) - Japanese organizing doyenne Marie Kondo has been at the front of everyone's mind since her Netflix series Tidying Up With Marie Kondo debuted, placing the question "Does it spark joy?" into the American conversation and teaching everyone how to fold their clothes like origami. Author Barbara Ehrenreich, however—...

Poverty Shouldn't Be A Crime: Barbara Ehrenreich
 We've Made It 
 a Crime to Be Poor 
barbara ehrenreich
Aug 13, 2011 2:21 PM CDT

We've Made It a Crime to Be Poor

10 years after 'Nickel and Dimed,' author Ehrenreich says things are even worse

(Newser) - A decade after her expose on America's working poor, Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich has a sobering assessment: "Things have gotten much worse, especially since the economic downturn that began in 2008," she writes in Salon . For one thing, the economy was booming around 2000 when she...

Best Business Books of '09
 Best Business 
 Books of '09 
year in review
Dec 19, 2009 3:27 PM CST

Best Business Books of '09

Housing bust, social networking among the top subjects

(Newser) - If ever there were a year in which we needed cogent business books, this is it. David Lidsky offers his 2009 favorites at Fast Company. Here's a sampling from the full list :
  • Busted, Edmund Andrews: The author's personal story about getting burned in the housing bust makes abstract problems tangible.
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'Pink-Ribbon Culture' a Disservice to Women
 'Pink-Ribbon Culture' 
 a Disservice to Women 
Barbara Ehrenreich
Dec 2, 2009 1:38 PM CST

'Pink-Ribbon Culture' a Disservice to Women

Questionable mammograms trump right to choose in new movement

(Newser) - When women raise a fury over questionable mammograms while letting the “anti-choice” Stupak amendment pass with nary a peep, you know something’s wrong with what passes for the “women’s health movement” these days, writes Barbara Ehrenreich. "All but the wealthiest women's right to choose" could...

Best Memoirs About Money
Best Memoirs About Money
Oct 20, 2007 8:07 AM CDT

Best Memoirs About Money

Get the inside scoop on finance from those who live (and lived) it

(Newser) - Some earn money; some write about it. Some do both. CNN Money recommends these six memoirs about money: getting it, managing it, spending it, and not having enough of it:
  1. The Age of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan
  2. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefevre
  3. American Sucker by David Denby
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