What Barbara Ehrenreich thinks about inflation
Writer and activist (1941 to 2022) whose Nickel and Dimed (2001) reported her own attempt to live on low-wage work and argued that the working poor subsidise everyone else.
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1 dated position, c. 2001, in their own words. Our reading of what Barbara Ehrenreich has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingLow-wage workers sacrifice their own lives so that everyone else's are cheaper and easier
Their wordsThey neglect their own children so that the children of others will be cared for; they live in substandard housing so that other homes will be shiny and perfect; they endure privation so that inflation will be low and stock prices high.
↗Nickel and Dimed (Henry Holt, 2002 printing of the 2001 book)archive.org All 3 from this book