We’ve Made It a Crime to Be Poor

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 did her research,…

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We’ve Made It a Crime to Be Poor

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