Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich is an investigative journalist, essayist, and activist, and is the author of 21 books, including Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. Her latest book is a memoir entitled Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever’s Search for the Truth about Everything. With the Institute for Policy Studies, she launched the Economic Hardship Reporting Project in order to force this country’s crisis of poverty and economic insecurity to the center of the national conversation. She was born in a mining town in Montana and now lives in Virginia.
ALL POSTS BY Barbara Ehrenreich
December 2, 2015The rising mortality rates among blue-collar whites could be a canary in the coal mine: Things are getting tougher for all working people, writes Barbara Ehrenreich.
October 2, 2014The tipping initiative by Maria Shriver sidesteps Marriott's responsibility to pay its housekeepers a living wage.
May 17, 2012Barbara Ehrenreich says government and corporations use the poor as piggy banks.
March 16, 2012Author Barbara Ehrenreich says poverty's not a cultural aberration -- it's simply a shortage of money.
