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Easton keeps 'Nickel and Dimed'
Allentown Morning Call
By Adam Clark, Of The Morning Call Easton Area School Board voted Tuesday night to allow teachers to continue using Barbara Ehrenreich's "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" in AP English courses. The 2001 book traces Ehrenreich's ...


CBS 11

'Preferred' Seating Plan Doesn't Sit Well With Airline Passengers
CBS 11
“You feel nickel and dimed,” says Terry Smith. “It's becoming like the banking industry, where every little thing is another $5 for this, $10 for that. You can't set your costs based on ticket and hotel.” Smith says his company now limits travel ...


Minneapolis Star Tribune

A war on poverty, indeed
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Barbara Ehrenreich is the author, among other books, of "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America," and the founder of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. She wrote this article for the Los Angeles Times. A longer version appears at ...

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Vote Coming on "Nickel and Dimed"
Patch.com
Also arguing against the book was Ronnie DelBacco, an Easton resident who ran for a seat on the school board last year. He objects to "Nickel and Dimed" for numerous reasons, including its passage on how to fake your way past a drug test.


Preying on Poverty: How Government and Corporations Use the Poor as Piggy Banks
Infoshop News
Her seventeenth book, Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America (Metropolitan Books), has just been published. Her bestselling book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, 10th Anniversary Edition, ...

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THEATER REVIEW: 'Hardbody' has makings of fine musical, but has yet to jell
North County Times
Playwright Doug Wright, a highly accomplished Playhouse guest artist ("I Am My Own Wife," "Creditors") originated the project and wrote the book, which is based, as his "Grey Gardens" was, on a documentary film. Like that earlier piece about a pair of ...

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Open thread for night owls: Preying on the poor
OpEdNews
Barbara Ehrenreich, who has written about class and poverty for more than 30 years, is the author, among other books, of the best-selling Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America . At TomDispatch, she writes Preying on the Poor: How Government ...


Press TV

When 'greed is good' and 'inequality is even better'
Press TV
In his new book Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told About the Economy Is Wrong, Conard argues that gaping income inequality is an indication of a healthy economy, not a sick one. The more unequal we are, Conard told the New York ...

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Wired News

In Defense of Literary Stunts
Wired News
A few years ago, I wrote a book about reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica. Then I spent 12 months living by all the rules of the Bible—including its ban on wearing mixed fibers or shaving. In my newest book, Drop Dead Healthy, I followed all ...


Summer air travel will set you back even more this year
Naperville Sun
There has been “airline sticker shock,” among clients looking to book flights to Europe, said Jeanne Fosco, Aurora-based regional travel manager for AAA Chicago. The Summer Olympics take place there this year, driving up demand.

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