Author, activist Barbara Ehrenreich on the state of working Americans

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?Nickel and Dimed,? author Barbara Ehrenreich takes to the Takeaway stage against the backdrop of the Presidential convention and new economic figures that bear bad news for American workers. Ehrenreich has blazed a trail as the ?voice? of the declining middle class and the growing underclass.

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