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Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of a number of books including “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America” and “Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America.”

(Hachette Book Group)

Working-class journalism in the Age of Oligarchs

Barbara Ehrenreich

Donald Trump (AP/Paul Vernon)

America’s white working class apocalypse: What’s really driving its rapid demise

Barbara Ehrenreich

(Hachette Book Group)

Barbara Ehrenreich: My search for truth as a non-believer

Barbara Ehrenreich

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The poor: America’s piggy bank

Barbara Ehrenreich

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What “other America”?

Barbara Ehrenreich

An Occupy Wall Street demonstrator holds a sign during what protest organizers call a "Day of Action" in New York November 17, 2011. (Brendan Mcdermid / Reuters)

How the 99 percent was born

Barbara Ehrenreich, John Ehrenreich

A protester gets arrested during an Occupy Chicago march and protest in Grant Park in Chicago, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011 (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)

Homelessness becomes an OWS issue

Barbara Ehrenreich

A scene of American poverty. (DenisTangneyJr/Getty )

How America turned poverty into a crime

Barbara Ehrenreich

An unarmed U.S. "Shadow" drone is launched in this undated photograph, released on January 5, 2011

Will drones change how we see war?

Barbara Ehrenreich

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Slap on a pink ribbon, call it a day

Barbara Ehrenreich

Did feminism make women miserable?

Barbara Ehrenreich

Chasing Monica

Barbara Ehrenreich

Communism on your coffee table!

Barbara Ehrenreich