Phi Beta Cons (Free subscription) | yesterday
A Wonderful Rebuttal to Barbara Ehrenreich []A hat tip to Prof. Paul Nachman at Montana State for spotting by Katherine Kersten (published in early December) about a UNC student who had to read Barbara Ehrenreich's book Nickel and Dimed for class — and didn't buy the author's gloom-and-doom view of low-wage work in America.He repeated her experiment (entering the low-wage...
United Professionals Blog (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
United Professionals was founded two years ago on the premise that the American middle class was in danger. Outsourcing and downsizing had forced tens of thousands of professionals into unemployment and underemployment. Skyrocketing costs of health insurance and health care, draconian bankruptcy laws, and the softening housing market all contributed to an erosion of the once-secure middle class. Today,...
Critical Mass (Free subscription) | yesterday
Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed has long been one of the more popular picks for the group reading projects colleges and universities like to assign as part of freshman orientation. And as often as it gets assigned, it gets attacked for being a socialist screed masquerading as classic investigative journalism: this book is a lightning rod for debates about campus bias, and administrators...
SFO Mom (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
As I did in 2008, I will be listing title, author, a short review, and the date. I read 97 books last year--hope to top that in '09! 1. Nickel and Dimed: on (not) Getting By In America by Barbara Ehrenreich. Interesting premise: a middle-class author leaves her usual life and visits several cities, working in a few different minimum-wage jobs and trying to see if she can live on what...
Rhode Island's Twelfth (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
Nothing new- just that the mainstream press is beginning to write on this. From author Barbara Ehrenreich's Blog : "[Jared] Bernstein [ Economic Policy Institute ] says, the wage gap between the college-educated and non-college-educated is beginning to narrow, and this not because the wages of the latter are rising." How many do you know who are under-employed or working at jobs that...
Enviroblog (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
... like bisphenol-A, phthalates, and Teflon, among many, many thousands of others. About a year ago, Barbara Ehrenreich reminded me in a short piece she wrote that the 'Great People theory of history' isn't how change really happens. Nope. It's the rest of us. You. Me. Your moms group. Your children's classmates' families. Concerned grandmas. As Ehrenreich wrote, using one historical...
New Zeal (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
... associates Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.MDS also spawned (PFO)-four of the six PFO founders, Barbara Ehrenreich (DSA), Bill Fletcher Jnr (DSA, Freedom Road Socialist Organisation), Tom Hayden (former SDS leader)and Carl Davidson (former SDS and Communist Party Marxist-Leninist, CCDS leader) have been MDS board members.Ehrenreich is an , Fletcher is an IPS fellow, while Tom...
