Barbara Ehrenreich, the political activist and author best known for her book “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America,” has died. She was 81 years old. According to The New York Times, ...

“Nickel and Dimed” as a theater piece is deadened by jokes in the wrong place and the kind of unconsciously smug gloss over the anguish and ache of real experience, where women’s suffering in this ...

Repeat after me: All your faves are problematic. Now, repeat after me again: Never tweet. Those are the two sentiments I’m feeling today after I saw a screenshotted (screenshat?) errant thought that ...

In the shadow of the Beyonce Super Bowl Spectacular, it’s helpful to take a step back and remember that a performance does not have to overwhelm the senses in order to be effective. Often, it is the ...

Barbara Ehrenreich in an undated photo. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. “It would be nice if someone would read this sad-eyed crowd the Sermon on the Mount, accompanied by a rousing commentary on income ...

Picador is marking the tenth anniversary of Barbara Ehrenreich’s modern classic “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America,” in which she chronicled her attempts to make a life on minimum wage ...

For years, Barbara Ehrenreich wrote acerbic commentary on wealth and poverty from the comfort of her home, until an assignment from her editor at Harper's magazine forced her to explore firsthand how ...

Now’s probably a pretty good time to see a show like Nickel and Dimed (currently onstage at Venice Theatre’s Stage II), an adaptation by Joan Holden of Barbara Ehrenreich’s book of the same name about ...

Barbara Ehrenreich, the muckraking author, activist and journalist who in such notable works as “Nickel and Dimed” and “Bait and Switch” challenged conventional thinking about class, religion and the ...

The following is an excerpt from Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. Listen to an interview with Barbara Ehrenreich here. The idea that led to this book arose in comparatively sumptuous ...