Barbara Ehrenreich

President-Elect Obama, Some "Unconventional" Economic Thinkers To Consider

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Thea Lee, Ron Blackwell, David Morris, Lori Wallach, Economics, Working Life, Joel Rogers, Barbara Ehrenreich, Dean Baker, Politics News
Jonathan Tasini

President-elect Obama has publicly stated that he wants "unconventional" thinking among the people who give him advice on the economy. Fantastic. S...

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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About EFCA (But Were Afraid To Ask)

ZP Heller | Posted 12.02.2008 | Business

Read More: Efca, Obama Transition, Barbara Ehrenreich, Employee Free Choice Act, Barack Obama, Howie Klein, Seiu, Michael Whitney, Jim Boehner, Labor Rights, Lee Scott, Employee Rights, Bernie Marcus, Unions, Labor Unions, Wal-Mart, Business News
ZP Heller

We're so close to passing the Employee Free Choice Act that we must dispel the last-minute attempts by anti-labor politicians to quash our efforts of standing up for working people.

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Obama, Bill Clinton and the Media "Center"

Norman Solomon | Posted 11.20.2008 | Media

Read More: Lloyd Bentsen, Bill Clinton, Economics, Stab in the Back, Pundits, Lani Guinier, News Media, Lurch to the Left, Barbara Ehrenreich, Mickey Kantor, Nafta, Doug Henwood, Journalism, Barack Obama, Warren Christopher, Populist, Gays in the Military, Ron Brown, The Center, Media News
Norman Solomon

The fog of memory and the spin of media are teaming up to explain that Obama must hew to "the center" if he knows what's good for his presidency.

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Report from the Socialist International Conspiracy

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted 10.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Phil Gramm, Henry Paulson, John McCain, Capitalism, Barbara Ehrenreich, Socialist International Conspiracy, Politics News
Barbara Ehrenreich

The truth is that we, the Socialist International Conspiracy, not only saw the crash of the stock market coming, we are the ones who made it happen.

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Do You Think Americans Reject The Notion Of Spreading The Wealth?

Howie Klein | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Peter Lang, Robert Wexler, Class Warfare, Barbara Ehrenreich, Politics News
Howie Klein

In his weekly radio address this morning John McCain warned that Barack Obama wants to-- Heaven forbid-- spread the wealth around. He would tax-- at a...

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The Communist Manifesto Hits 160

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted 10.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Capitalism, Barbara Ehrenreich, Immiseration, Economic Crisis, Communist Manifesto, Marx, Wall Street Crisis, Politics News
Barbara Ehrenreich

This year marks the 160th anniversary of the Communist Manifesto and capitalism, aka "free enterprise," seems willing to observe the occasion by dropping dead.

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Pastors Go Postal

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted 08.12.2008 | Living

Read More: Sharon Brown, Robert Schuller, Barbara Ehrenreich, Victoria Osteen, Televangelists, Evangelical Christians, Christianity, Lakewood Church Osteen, Joel Osteen's Wife, Joel Osteen, Evangelicals, Living News
Barbara Ehrenreich

After Joel and Victoria Osteen's latest incident, there's a possible message from on high: that their brand of Christianity fosters a distinctly un-Christian narcissism.

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The Suicide Solution

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted 07.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Carlene Balderrama, Barbara Ehrenreich, Housing Bill, Politics News
Barbara Ehrenreich

Suicide is becoming an increasingly popular response to debt. If you can't pay your debts and if, in addition you're no longer needed at the workplace, then there's no further point to your existence.

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Liposuction: The Key to Energy Independence

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Oil, Barbara Ehrenreich, Current Events, Economy, Energy, Liposuction, Politics News
Barbara Ehrenreich

The average liposuction removes about half a gallon of liquid fat, which may not seem like much. But think of the vast reserves our nation is literally sitting on!

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Edwards Poverty Campaign Met With Media Blackout

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.15.2008 | Home

Read More: Barbara Ehrenreich Nickle and Dimed, Podesta Center for American Progress, Edwards, Martin Luther King Poverty, Martin Luther King, The Wire Poverty, Johnson Poverty, Half in Ten, Pew Center Poverty, The Wire, Edwards Half in Ten, Obama, Edwards Poverty, Barbara Ehrenreich, Johnson, War on Poverty, Edwards Miniumum Wage, Unired Auto Workers, Edwards Obama, President Johnson Poverty, Poverty Media, Edwards Poverty Czar, Edwards ACORN, Edwards Maud Hurd, Edwards Podesta, John Edwards, John Podesta, Hurd ACORN, Home News
Peter Dreier

The Edwards endorsement of Obama made all the news. The Edwards plan to battle soaring levels of poverty in this country, Half in Ten, has made almost no news at all.

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Hillary's Gift to Women

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Elections, Women, Hillary Clinton, Barbara Ehrenreich, Feminist, Susan Faludi, Barack Obama, Politics News
Barbara Ehrenreich

Hillary smashed the myth of innate female moral superiority in the worst possible way -- by demonstrating female moral inferiority.

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Maureen Dowd: Obama Is No RFK

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Rachel Maddow, Susan Faludi, Maureen Dowd, Hillary Clinton, Arianna Huffington, Barbara Ehrenreich, Barack Obama, Robert F. Kennedy, Susan Douglas, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

Dowd's commentary relating to Democratic presidential candidates over the past 12 years finds them all insufficient and deserving of her patented brand of Catholic schoolgirl ridicule.

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Truckers Protest, the Resistance Begins

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gas Prices, Barbara Ehrenreich, Economy, Truckers, Recession, Politics News
Barbara Ehrenreich

On April 1, in a wave of defiance, truck drivers began taking the strongest form of action they can take -- inaction. Faced with $4/gallon diesel fuel, they slowed down, shut down and started honking.

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Clinton and Obama Silence On Winter Soldier Divides Progressives

Christine Escobar | Posted 03.26.2008 | Home

Read More: Christopher Hayes, The Nation, Election 2008, Progressive Democrats of America, Barack Obama, Momocrats, Hillary Clinton, Anti-War, The Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq, John Kerry, Obama Centrism, Progressive Values, Darcy Burner Iraq, John Kerry Iraq War, Clinton Iraq War Policy, Samantha Power Obama, Christopher Hayes the Nation, Common Dreams, End Iraq War, Progressives for Obama, Clinton Winter Soldier, Barbara Ehrenreich Endorsement Obama, Samantha Power Iraq War, Democrats Policy Iraq War, Progressive Endorsements Obama, Danny Glover, John Kerry War Iraq, John Kerry Endorsement Obama, Progressive Movement, Barbara Ehrenreich, End Iraq War Obama, Hillary Clinton Iraq War Policy, Samantha Power, Barack Obama Iraq War Policy, Endorsements End Iraq War, Clinton Centrism, John Kerry Iraq Obama, Tom Hayden, Danny Glover Endorsement Obama, End Iraq War Clinton, Tom Hayden Endorsement Obama, Stephen Zunes, Obama Winter Soldier, Obama Iraq War Policy, Bill Fletcher Endorsement Obama, Bill Fletcher, Home News
Christine Escobar

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have yet to acknowledge the Iraq withdrawal plan crafted by members of their own party, and it appears there is little pressure from the press to question them on it.

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Hillary's Nasty Pastorate

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: The Family, Christian Conservatives, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Religion and Politics, Hillary Clinton, Prayer Breakfast, Barbara Ehrenreich, Barack Obama, Fellowship, Hillary Clinton Religion, Jeremiah Wright Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright, 2008 Election, Politics News
Barbara Ehrenreich

There's a reason why Clinton has remained relatively silent during the flap over remarks by Obama's former pastor. When it comes to unsavory religious affiliations, she's a lot more vulnerable than Obama.

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World's Designated Shoppers Drop

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted 03.10.2008 | Business

Read More: Unemployment, Workers, Barbara Ehrenreich, Recession, Economy, Business News
Barbara Ehrenreich

If a pink slip hurts, what about a letter from Citicard announcing that you've been laid off as a shopper?

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Stimulus Deal: The Banes of Bipartisanship

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 01.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Bipartisanship, Stimulus, President, Recession, Economy, Democratic Congress, Economic Stimulus Package, Barbara Ehrenreich, Bush Stimulus Plan, Politics News
Robert L. Borosage

The real price of the deal is the continued misdirection of the economy and miseducation of the country. We need what the stimulus package excludes.

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Republican "Class Warfare"

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 01.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Kevin Phillips, Robert Kuttner, Noami Klein, William Greider, Barbara Ehrenreich, George W. Bush, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

With the current economic meltdown millions of Americans might be starting to wake up to the new reality brought on by years of unbridled greed masquerading as economic policy.

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Clitoral Economics

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted 01.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Ben Bernanke, Unemployment, Barbara Ehrenreich, Recession, Economy, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Stock Market, Naomi Klein, Economic Stimulus, Disaster Capitalism, Citigroup, Business News
Barbara Ehrenreich

I'm proposing a radical shift in rhetoric: Any stimulus package should focus on the poor and the unemployed, not because they spend more, but because they are most in need of help.

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Hillary's Real MLK Problem

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted 01.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Change, Martin Luther King, Blacks, Hillary Clinton, Barbara Ehrenreich, Race, Barack Obama, African Americans, Hillary Clinton MLK, Stokely Carmichael, Politics News
Barbara Ehrenreich

Clinton's LBJ remark reveals something more worrisome than racial tone-deafness - a theory of social change that's as elitist as it is inaccurate.

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Recession -- Who Cares?

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: US Economy, Jobs, Economic Growth, Barbara Ehrenreich, 2008 Election, Recession, Economy, Bush Economy, Gdp, Politics News
Barbara Ehrenreich

If hard times have already fallen on a majority of Americans, then "recession" doesn't seem to be a very useful term anymore.

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In Defense of Princesses

Trey Ellis | Posted 12.18.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Disney, Disney Princesses, Trey Ellis, Writers' Strike, Barbara Ehrenreich, Enchanted, Entertainment News
Trey Ellis

The more you watch your kids the more you realize that some key gender specifics are as hardwired as hunger and thirst.

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Bonfire of the Princesses

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted 12.11.2007 | Living

Read More: Disney, Barbie, Barbara Ehrenreich, Christmas Gifts, Disney Princesses, Princesses, Living News
Barbara Ehrenreich

It may be old-fashioned to say so, but sex -- and especially some middle-aged man's twisted version thereof -- doesn't belong in the pre-K playroom.

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What's So Great about Gated Communities

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted 12.03.2007 | Politics

Read More: Housing, Barbara Ehrenreich, Real Estate, Segregation, Gated Communities, Mcmansions, Politics News
Barbara Ehrenreich

Before we turn all of America into a gated community, with a steel fence running along the southern border, we should consider the mixed history of exclusionary walls.

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Roaches in the World's Most Expensive Dessert

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted 11.19.2007 | Politics

Read More: Poverty, Barbara Ehrenreich, Working Class, Greed, NYC Restaurants, Gluttony, Serendipity 3, New York City Restaurants Health Department, Haute Chocolate, Wealth, NYC Health Violations Restaurants, Middle Class, Frozen Haute Chocolate, Class, Politics News
Barbara Ehrenreich

This isn't just another story about gluttony. It's a story about the inevitability of cockroaches in a world divided between rich and poor and served by a public sector in a state of bad decay.

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