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Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Eton's commori reading
o^K "Njckel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in
America" spoke in Alumni Gym on Tuesday night.
Leighanne Ellis
Reporter
Shaming, shocking, terri
bly relevant. Readers of the
social critique “Nickel and
Dimed: On (Not) Getting by
In America” could apply any
of these words to the novel.
Yet this 230-page social report
is only a continuation in
Barbara Ehrenreich’s life-long
battle to shed light on lower-
class struggles. The book
serves as Elon’s 2004 com
mon reading.
Appearing before Elon
University on Tuesday night,
Ehrenreich had no pretenses to
offer the student body, instead
offering distressing truths
gleaned from her reporting -
America’s poor encompasses
not 12 percent of the popula-
Passing herselfof7araJfeiK^r~^ ^ —
entered a world where collea recent divorcee, she
the ioh drinking water on
was frequently prohibited..
to.ta.a„umberm»chlar8e,. duringa «
and the poor are getting poor
er, as the middle class contin
ues to shrink, Ehrenreich said
•mplonng the wealthy to give
to those in need through ch^:"
ty programs and other types of
organizations aimed to heln
underprivileged people
. f™"‘^^'^yChenotfelt
Aat Ehrenreich “should have
been more nonpartisan when
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Chenot also added that
people like Bill Gates provide
jobs echoing one comment
”>™ber
and Dimed. Passing herself o
as a fellow disadvantaged,
recent divorcee, she entered a
worid here colleagues slept in
care, and drinking water on the
job was frequently prohibited-
Even as an upper class
entering the lower
ses-
s'on following the speech
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latched onto politic
fields of in the
fields of wealth and poveny.
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and Disordprc °'^P’aints was forced to pull out of her
Politics of project early when she could
helped carve th^ "o longer find housing. In her
for the women,^,®'^“"‘l'^ork Evaluation chapter, she sweafi
ment of the 1970s "
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