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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts) Tue Jan 3, 2012, 03:47 PM Jan 2012

In this clip, award-winning journalist Barbara Ehrenreich gets to the root of what it means to be nickel and dimed by the 1%. Watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gDgFiW2xtf0
Source: MoveOn.org

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What Living On $7 An Hour Actually Means (Original Post) Playinghardball Jan 2012 OP

I love Ehrenreich JackintheGreen Jan 2012 #1

You'd have to make $9.32 an hour today... salvorhardin Jan 2012 #2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDgFiW2xtf0 WhoIsNumberNone Jan 2012 #3

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1. I love Ehrenreich

Tue Jan 3, 2012, 03:53 PM

Jan 2012

but this video is so wooden.

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2. You'd have to make $9.32 an hour today...

Tue Jan 3, 2012, 07:17 PM

Jan 2012

You'd have to make $9.32 an hour today to equal $7/hr. in 1998 when this video was made. The 1968 minimum wage in 2010 dollars would be $10.32/hr. http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/anth484/minwage.html

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3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDgFiW2xtf0

Tue Jan 3, 2012, 08:02 PM

Jan 2012

Right wingers HATE this book. I read it in college.