Stories by Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of thirteen books, including the New York Times bestseller Nickel and Dimed. A frequent contributor to the New York Times, Harpers, and the Progressive, she is a contributing writer to Time magazine. She lives in Florida.
Posted on May 17, 2012, Source: TomDispatch.com
The trick is to rob them in ways that are systematic, impersonal, and almost impossible to trace to individual perpetrators.
Posted on Mar 15, 2012, Source: TomDispatch.com
Prevailing attitudes towards poverty blame the victim. Here's why that's so wrong.
Posted on Dec 15, 2011, Source: The Nation and TomDispatch.com
For decades, conservatives have generated antipathy towards a so-called "liberal elite." Occupy helped America discover the 1% and their crimes.
Posted on Oct 23, 2011, Source: TomDispatch.com
The Occupy Wall Streeters are beginning to discover what homeless people have known all along--that most ordinary activities are illegal when performed in American streets.
Posted on Aug 12, 2011, Source: TomDispatch.com
"When you leave the relative safety of the middle class, you might as well have given up your citizenship and taken residence in a hostile nation."
Posted on Aug 8, 2011, Source: Democracy Now!
Barbara Ehrenreich discusses the sorry state of the American economy and how it impacts real people.
Posted on Jul 10, 2011, Source: TomDispatch.com
How far will the automation of war and the substitution of autonomous robots for human fighters go?
Posted on Apr 29, 2011, Source: The American Prospect
If Wal-Mart is a person, as per the Supreme Court, it's a behemoth terrorizing the countryside. But when it comes to workers' rights, it remains curiously immune from lawsuits.
Posted on Aug 17, 2010, Source: The Nation
The role of the left should not be to uphold or defend a government increasingly at odds with the interests of the people, but to change it, drastically and from the ground up.
Posted on May 20, 2010, Source: Psychotherapy Networker
Positive psychology -- forced optimism -- is actually quite Calvinist, putting happiness to work as a means to an end.
Posted on Dec 2, 2009, Source: TomDispatch.com
What feminists don't need, no matter how many "races for the cure" they run, is a ladies’ auxiliary to the cancer-industrial complex.
Posted on Nov 4, 2009, Source: TomDispatch.com
Too much faith in private enterprise has left us open to a flu epidemic.
Posted on Oct 14, 2009, Source: TomDispatch.com
Much-discussed study claims that women are more depressed relative to men in recent decades, when it actually suggests that neither marriage nor children make women happy.
Posted on Aug 19, 2009, Source: The New York Times
If you're living on the streets, engaging in the biological necessities of life -- like sitting, sleeping, lying down or loitering -- will get you in jail.
Posted on Aug 10, 2009, Source: Barbaraehrenreich.com
40 percent of African Americans will have experienced unemployment or underemployment by 2010 and child poverty will increase to slightly over half.
Posted on Jun 4, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Drop your sense of entitlement, Ehrenreich tells a graduating class of media makers, journalists are now "part of the working class."
Posted on May 11, 2009, Source: Madison Capital Times
You may be poorer than you've ever been, but you have more free time to express anger and urgency.
Posted on Mar 6, 2009, Source: The Nation
The electroshock paddles of "stimulus" keep being applied, but the capitalist patient isn't waking up. Is it now safe to talk about socialism?
Posted on Feb 26, 2009, Source: Barbaraehrenreich.com
America in the Bush years was so vicious and stupid that it managed to take my freedom of speech and turn it into someone else's living hell.
Posted on Feb 21, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The American taxpayer, reeling from the economic meltdown, doesn't feel like subsidizing lavish jets and bonuses any more.
Posted on Jan 13, 2009, Source: Barbaraehrenreich.com
As the poor and the formerly middle-class become the new American majority, will they finally have enough status to get their needs met?
Posted on Sep 26, 2008, Source: Barbaraehrenreich.com
Besides greed, another habit of mind should get its share of the blame: the delusional optimism of mainstream, all-American, positive thinking.
Posted on Aug 13, 2008, Source: Barbaraehrenreich.com
The wife of get-rich-now pastor Joel Osteen faces a civil trial that embodies the sense of entitlement of those who preach the gospel of prosperity.
Posted on Jul 29, 2008, Source: Barbaraehrenreich.com
In a culture where credit rating is the key measure of self-worth, the increasing response to huge debts is "Just shoot me!"
Posted on Jun 24, 2008, Source: Barbaraehrenreich.com
Obese America is literally sitting on vast energy reserves -- all we need to do is extract it.
Posted on Jun 17, 2008, Source: The Nation
In the era of the superrich, if a place is truly beautiful, ordinary people can't afford to be there.
Posted on May 17, 2008, Source: Barbaraehrenreich.com
Hillary Clinton smashed the myth of innate female moral superiority in the worst possible way -- by demonstrating female moral inferiority.
Posted on Apr 8, 2008, Source: Barbaraehrenreich.com
Faced with $4-per-gallon diesel fuel, truck drivers -- who deliver 70 percent of the nation's goods -- are hitting the brakes.
Posted on Mar 20, 2008, Source: Barbaraehrenreich.com
When it comes to unsavory religious affiliations, Hillary Clinton is a lot more vulnerable than Barack Obama.
Posted on Mar 12, 2008, Source: Barbaraehrenreich.com
We have been the world's designated shoppers, and, if we fall down on the job, we take the global economy with us.
Posted on Feb 16, 2008, Source: Barbaraehrenreich.com
When Americans vote for "change," what they're really saying is, "Get us out of here!"
Posted on Feb 5, 2008, Source: The Washington Post
Our challenge isn't just to prop up stock prices but to rebuild an economy in which everyone shares the good times.
Posted on Jan 23, 2008, Source: Barbaraehrenreich.com
Ben Bernanke may not use this imagery, but the immediate challenge is how best to get the economy throbbing again.
Posted on Jan 10, 2008, Source: Barbaraehrenreich.com
Growth and productivity mean nothing when they are de-coupled from most people's lived experience: being squeezed.
Posted on Dec 5, 2007, Source: Barbaraehrenreich.com
When we live in gated communities, are we keeping things out or just fencing ourselves in?
Posted on Nov 21, 2007, Source: Barbaraehrenreich.com
Can you spare a tear for the ultra-wealthy?
Posted on Nov 14, 2007, Source: The Nation
The plight of the writers doesn't invoke the same sympathies as more blue-collar workers, but anyone who's willing to stand up to greedy bosses deserves our support.
Posted on Nov 14, 2007, Source: Barbaraehrenreich.com
Sure, a screenwriters' strike is not as emotionally compelling as a strike by janitors or farm-workers, but look at what we're losing.
Posted on Nov 2, 2007, Source: Barbaraehrenreich.com
It's enough to make you vomit on your new denim jacket: The Gap has been caught using child slave labor in an Indian sweatshop.
Posted on Oct 3, 2007, Source: Barbaraehrenreich.com
The black and female candidates for president, especially the latter, are suffering from severe lack-of-personality disorders.
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