“Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America,” a talk by Barbara Ehrenreich

Social and political activist, Barbara Ehrenreich describes herself as “a myth buster by trade.” She is a widely read and award-winning columnist and the author of 21 books. Ehrenreich’s New York Times bestselling book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, is a memoir of her three-month social experiment trying to survive on minimum wage while working as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, nursing-home aide, and Wal-Mart clerk. The book was described by Newsweek magazine as “jarring” and “full of riveting grit”, and by The New Yorker as an “exposé” putting “human flesh on the bones of such abstractions as ‘living wage’ and ‘affordable housing’”. This event is sponsored by the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience.

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