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Shocking Examples of How We've Turned Poverty into a Crime in America

Barbara Ehrenreich, TomDispatch.com. August 12, 2011.

"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."

Barbara Ehrenreich: America's Tragic Decline -- Resistance Bursts Out All Over the World, While We Do Nothing to Fight Corporate Takeover

Amy Goodman, Barbara Ehrenreich, Democracy Now!. August 8, 2011.

Barbara Ehrenreich discusses the sorry state of the American economy and how it impacts real people.

Ehrenreich: The Pink-Ribbon Breast Cancer Cult

Barbara Ehrenreich, TomDispatch.com. December 2, 2009.

What feminists don't need, no matter how many "races for the cure" they run, is a ladiesâ€™ auxiliary to the cancer-industrial complex.

Barbara Ehrenreich: The Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

Emily Wilson, AlterNet. October 10, 2009.

The author talks about how a plague of positive thinking is permeating our society, from medicine to business, and is even contributing to our financial crisis.

Barbara Ehrenreich: Welcome to a Dying Industry, J-School Grads

Barbara Ehrenreich, AlterNet. June 4, 2009.

Drop your sense of entitlement, Ehrenreich tells a graduating class of media makers, journalists are now "part of the working class."

Unemployed, and Not Getting a Job Anytime Soon? Why Not Build a Better World?

Barbara Ehrenreich, Madison Capital Times. May 11, 2009.

You may be poorer than you've ever been, but you have more free time to express anger and urgency.