Thank goodness it’s not in Seattle this time: A New Hampshire couple told a school board Monday that their son’s civil rights were violated when he was assigned a book that refers Jesus Christ as a ...

Halfway through her best-selling Nickel and Dimed, a book examining the minimum-wage way of life, author Barbara Ehrenreich stops for a disquisition on cleaning other people’s toilets. “The first time ...

Barbara Ehrenreich finished media interviews in the Radisson hotel lobby, returned a water glass to the bar, then headed to her room to change from jeans and a T-shirt into a suit. Six years ago, she ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- A stage version of the book "Nickel and Dimed" will be presented Aug. 9-31 at the Guthrie Lab Theater in Minneapolis. The play, by Joan Holden, is based on Barbara Ehrenreich's book, ...

I just bought this book at borders, and man, what a read. The conclusions the author draws pretty much exactly sum up my feelings about the working class (both low, middle, and high) in America today.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill raised a few eyebrows when its summer reading list included the book "Nickel and Dimed, Not Getting By in America." Tuesday, a group of campus workers ...