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Nickel and Dimed

Obesity Epidemic: Spurring a Revolution

Linda Novick O'Keefe | Posted 03.18.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Healthy Eating, Healthy Living, Travis Smiley, Food Network, Home Economics, Cooking, Feeding America, All Things Considered, Obesity, Barbara Ehrenreich, Children's Health, Nickel and Dimed, Childhood Obesity, Healthy Living News
Linda Novick O'Keefe

For our kids to combat the obesity plague, no single strategy is adequate. We need easy access to affordable good food, plus physical activity, plus kids who are not intimidated by kitchen utensils and raw vegetables.

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Help Wanted: Someone - Anyone! - With a Real Plan to Rebuild America

Pearl Korn | Posted 10.31.2011 | Politics
Read More: John F. Kennedy, Taxes, Social Security, Debt Ceiling, New Deal, Economy, President Obama, Jobs, Bernie Sanders, Nickel and Dimed, Hunger, Unemployment, Marshall Plan, Bailout, 2012 Election, Tea Party, Elections 2012, Third World America, Politics News
Pearl Korn

Our "leaders" -- from the president on down -- should hang their heads in shame for wasting so much time and energy squabbling over the tax rates of the filthy rich and the size of giveaways to multi-national corporations while disaster unfolds before us.

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Nickel and Dimed (2011 Version)

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted 10.09.2011 | Politics
Read More: Welfare, Unemployment, Low Wages, Poverty, Food Stamps, Suicide, Medical Care, Jobs, Poor, Nickel and Dimed, Health Care, Politics News
Barbara Ehrenreich

The most shocking thing I learned from my research on the fate of the working poor in the recession was the extent to which poverty has been criminalized in America.

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NH Parents Object To Book That Calls Jesus 'Vagrant'

AP | HOLLY RAMER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Jesus Book, School Books, Nickel and Dimed, Aimee Taylor, Dennis Taylor, Book Banning, Home News

BEDFORD, N.H. — A New Hampshire couple told a school board Monday that their son's civil rights were violated when he was assigned a book that r...

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Bright-Sided: Smart Analysis Or Missing Something?

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Positive Thinking, Bright-Sided, Positivity, Books, Nora Ephron, The Secret, Power of Positive Thinking, Optimism, Book Reviews, New Books, Bright-Sided Book Review, Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed, Poll, Bestsellers, Books News

Barbara Ehrenreich's new book, Bright-Sided, has been the source of a great book review debate recently. Following eye-opening accounts such as Nickel...

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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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