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Barbara Ehrenreich

Are IKEA, Outlet Malls, Wal-Mart, and Whole Foods Really Bargains?

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Citizenship, Vance Packard, Christopher Lasch, Whole Foods, Cheap, Chinese Factories, Outlet Malls, Wages, Craftsmanship, Cheap Eats, Globalization, Barbara Ehrenreich, David Reisman, Ellen Ruppel Shell, Wal-Mart, Shrimp Farming, Slow Food, Labor, Consumerism, Ikea, Michael Pollan, Betty Friedan, Local Food, Chinese Exports, Marketing, Sustainability, Deforestation, Pricing, Eric Schlosser, Red Lobster, Food, Green News
Anis Shivani

American consumers are being taken for a ride.

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Third Screen: Entertainment vs. Recession Porn

Vickie Karp | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Arts, David Lynch, The Economy, Poverty, Barbara Ehrenreich, Rich and Poor, The New York Times, Entertainment News
Vickie Karp

Who is rich and powerful? Who is poor and weak? Artists and journalists always write about these things, but how they do so is telling. During th...

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Real Progress on Homelessness

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Wal-Mart, Bronx, Homelessness, Brooklyn, New York City, The New Yorker, Homeless, Million Dollar Murray, Malcolm Gladwell, Queens, Will Smith, Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed, New York/New York, Politics News
Lloyd I. Sederer, MD

We can end chronic homelessness, but only if we abandon ineffective and entrenched practices.

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

ZP Heller | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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 05.25.2011 | 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 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Phil Gramm, Henry Paulson, John McCain, Capitalism, Barbara Ehrenreich, Socialist International Conspiracy, Socialists, 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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The Communist Manifesto Hits 160

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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 11.17.2011 | Healthy 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, Healthy 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 05.25.2011 | 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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Edwards Poverty Campaign Met With Media Blackout

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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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Clinton and Obama Silence On Winter Soldier Divides Progressives

Christine Escobar | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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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