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<title><![CDATA[Barbara Ehrenreich - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16101.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Barbara Ehrenreich]]></description><category domain="16101">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Preying on the Poor]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/article/167936/preying-poor</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barbara Ehrenreich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month&rsquo;s rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene. But as Business Week helpfully pointed out in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Guys in 1% Destroyed Working Class]]></title>
							<link>http://progressive.org/one_percent_barbara_ehrenreich.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barbara Ehrenreich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At the risk of being pedantic, let me point out that &ldquo;99% versus 1%&rdquo; is not a class analysis, not in any respectable sociological sense. Shave off the top 1% and you&rsquo;re still left with some awfully steep divides of wealth, income and opportunity. The 99% includes the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Rich Are Under Attack - Poor Things!]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/rich-people-demonized-for-flaunting-their-wealth-are-under-attack/2011/09/28/gIQAcJn4AL_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barbara Ehrenreich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The latest group to claim victim status is the rich. Actually the super-rich, whose wealth ordinarily exempts them from pity. While they are not yet subjected to airport profiling (except for early boarding and club access), they sense that the public is turning subtly against them...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Since When Is It a Crime to Be Poor?]]></title>
							<link>http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/nickel-and-dimed-afterword</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barbara Ehrenreich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I completed the manuscript for Nickel and Dimed in a time of seemingly boundless prosperity. Technology innovators and venture capitalists were acquiring sudden fortunes, buying up McMansions like the ones I had cleaned in Maine and much larger. Even secretaries in some high-tech firms...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Welfare Reform's Failure]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/04/AR2009120402604.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Barbara Ehrenreich</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We all like to imagine that there'll be something to stop our fall if we hit hard times. Mulugeta Yimer, for example, is a 56-year-old Alexandria cabdriver who escaped poverty and persecution in Ethiopia 20 years ago only to be clobbered by the recession. Business is way down, and he's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Growing Clout of the Nouveau Poor]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090126/ehrenreich?rel=hp_picks</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Barbara Ehrenreich</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Delusional Optimism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/opinion/24ehrenreich.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barbara Ehrenreich</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Of Bitterness and Boilermakers]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/04/15/of-bitterness-and-boilermakers.aspx</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barbara Ehrenreich</author>
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