2008-2009

All presentations are free and open to the public
(with the exception of the First Year Reading Speaker, David Bornstein).

Barbara Ehrenreich
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
November 13, 2008
Mathias H. Heck Courtroom
10:30 am

Barbara Ehrenreich is a journalist, historian, and social critic. In 2001, Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America became a New York Times bestseller, and has since sold over one million copies. Nickel and Dimed, a trenchant examination of working-class poverty that chronicles Ehrenreich’s attempt to live on minimum wage, is now required reading at more than 600 colleges and universities.

A frequent contributor to Harper’s and The Nation, Ehrenreich has been a columnist at the New York Times and Time magazine. Ehrenreich’s latest book This Land is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation, a collection of her columns, was published by Metropolitan Books in July 2008.