Barbara Ehrenreich is a journalist most famous for her 2001 book "Nickel and Dimed".
Barbara Ehrenreich is a journalist most famous for her 2001 book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. Ehrenreich went undercover as a low-wage worker and documented the unseen struggles faced by the working poor after the passage of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, otherwise known as welfare reform.
AIR DATE 10/7/16
In an epic road trip, political comedian John Fugelsang retraces the nearly two-hundred-year-old journey of Alexis de Tocqueville. Along the way he explores whether the optimistic spirit of the American Dream that Tocqueville popularized is alive and well in the twenty-first century.
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