Published in KPBS On Air Magazine September 2005 Can an acclaimed, high-profile journalist subsist on minimum wage? Social critic Barbara Ehrenreich was determined to find out. She spent a year moving among three states (Florida, Maine and Minnesota), taking low-wage jobs such as waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, Wal-Mart salesperson and nursing home aide. The result was her knockout, life-changing, consciousness-raising, best-selling 2001 book, “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America.” In 2002, Joan Holden, Read More →