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.
Hillary Clinton smashed the myth of innate female moral superiority in the worst possible way -- by demonstrating female moral inferiority.
Posted on May 17, 2008
Faced with $4-per-gallon diesel fuel, truck drivers -- who deliver 70 percent of the nation's goods -- are hitting the brakes.
Posted on Apr 8, 2008
When it comes to unsavory religious affiliations, Hillary Clinton is a lot more vulnerable than Barack Obama.
Posted on Mar 20, 2008
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 Mar 12, 2008
When Americans vote for "change," what they're really saying is, "
Get us out of here!"
Posted on Feb 16, 2008
Our challenge isn't just to prop up stock prices but to rebuild an economy in which everyone shares the good times.
Posted on Feb 5, 2008
Ben Bernanke may not use this imagery, but the immediate challenge is how best to get the economy throbbing again.
Posted on Jan 23, 2008
Growth and productivity mean nothing when they are de-coupled from most people's lived experience: being squeezed.
Posted on Jan 10, 2008
When we live in gated communities, are we keeping things out or just fencing ourselves in?
Posted on Dec 5, 2007
Can you spare a tear for the ultra-wealthy?
Posted on Nov 21, 2007
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
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 14, 2007
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 Nov 2, 2007
The black and female candidates for president, especially the latter, are suffering from severe lack-of-personality disorders.
Posted on Oct 3, 2007
After facing down the Third Reich, the Japanese Empire, the U.S.S.R., Saddam Hussein, the United States has met an enemy it dares not confront -- the American private health insurance industry.
Posted on Sep 24, 2007
Colleges and universities today are turning teenagers into full-fledged citizens of our economy by introducing them to a lifetime of debt.
Posted on Sep 11, 2007
This Labor Day lets not forget those among us who are the most fortunate.
Posted on Sep 3, 2007
We may be witnessing the first time in history that the downtrodden manage to bring down an unfair economic system without going to the trouble of a revolution.
Posted on Aug 22, 2007
If Bush vetoes the SCHIP bill that would expand state health insurance coverage for children, the fallback demand should be: Open up pet health insurance to all American children now!
Posted on Aug 11, 2007
The perennial temptation to blame disease on sin or at least some grave moral failing just took another hit.
Posted on Aug 7, 2007
Our health care system isn't designed to make people healthier: It is designed for extracting money from the vulnerable and putting it into the pockets of the rich.
Posted on Jul 17, 2007
As mansions increasingly eat up the coasts and hillsides, an old saying rings true: "If a place is truly beautiful, you can't afford to be there."
Posted on Jun 30, 2007
A bloated overclass can drag down a society as surely as a swelling underclass. A great deal of the wealth at the top is built on the low-wage labor of the poor.
Posted on Jun 13, 2007
Recent findings shed new light on the increasingly unequal terrain of American society. The new "top" involves pay in the hundreds of millions, a private jet and a few acres of Nantucket. The new bottom is slavery.
Posted on May 31, 2007
With a local news outlet in California recruiting reporters in India, no one can pretend any longer that we have a global monopoly on intellect and innovation.
Posted on May 16, 2007
Hiasl, a 26-year old Austrian-based chimpanzee, is petitioning the courts for human status, and let me be the first to extend him a warm welcome to our species.
Posted on May 11, 2007
Is a college degree really a sign of competence? Or is it chiefly a signal to employers that you've mastered the ability to obey and conform?
Posted on May 2, 2007
Not so long ago seniority was rewarded with higher pay and other perks. But that higher pay now carries a lethal risk, as Circuit City has just demonstrated.
Posted on Apr 10, 2007
With Target and Wal-Mart acting as though they are entitled to spy on, stalk and imprison their own employees, we are on the road to a full-scale workplace dictatorship.
Posted on Apr 6, 2007
It's bad enough to learn that Elizabeth Edwards' cancer has returned -- now we have to worry about what ugly things the right-wing and mainstream media are saying.
Posted on Mar 30, 2007
Home Depot salesclerks get about $8-$10 an hour for lifting heavy objects and running around the floor all day with no tips while its departed CEO got $210 million bonus for sinking the value of the company's stock.
Posted on Mar 23, 2007
George Orwell's "1984" is already here and it's called the American workplace, but finally there's a law in the works that might make jobs livable.
Posted on Mar 12, 2007
Let’s face it, JetBlue and the rest of you: Anything more than three hours on the ground isn’t an airline delay, it’s a hostage situation.
Posted on Feb 24, 2007
It's not enough these days for employees to slave to the bone -- workplace motivators are pushing us to squeeze a smile out of our hefty workloads.
Posted on Feb 10, 2007
A visit to Washington state, which has the highest minimum wage in the country, reveals a booming economy with none of the problems Big Business had been warning about.
Posted on Jan 23, 2007
Let's face it: Christmas is not the exclusive property of those who think God came to earth 2000 years ago as a baby in Bethlehem.
Posted on Dec 9, 2006
Most Democrats say their hands are tied when it comes to fixing health care. But they've also said that about the minimum wage, and this election voters proved them wrong.
Posted on Nov 15, 2006
In the 24 states that voted to raise their minimum wages, it just got a bit more worthwhile to get up for work each morning.
Posted on Nov 9, 2006
CEOs use shame and intimidation to keep workers "productive," but the real shame is on executives who make eight-figure incomes while their lowest-paid employees trudge between food banks.
Posted on Oct 27, 2006
Conservatives say struggling Americans are just too dumb to grasp the wonders of our 'knowledge-based economy.'
Posted on Sep 13, 2006
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