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Ten Years Later: “Nickel and Dimed” After the Crash

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Ten years ago, journalist Barbara Ehrenreich’s bestselling book “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America” asked if you can live on the money you were likely to earn as an unskilled worker. As this involved taking minimum wage jobs insufficient for food and rent, the answer was no. The book went on to [...]

August 24th, 2011 | Posted in News Blog | Read More »

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