Ehrenreich is so sarcastically funny in so many of these essays. Another good read from her.
Ehrenreich is so sarcastically funny in so many of these essays. Another good read from her.
[W]hat both parties need to understand is that economic issues are moral issues. Poverty is a moral issue. 47 million Americans without health insurance is a moral issue. [...] If you're going to be pro-life, you've got to be pro-environment and pro-economic justice.
Smiles, at least in human society, are gestures of submission, and routinely demanded of women as a time of subordinate status.
If someone breaks into my property for the purpose of trashing and looting, I would be hell bent on restitution. But if they break in for the purpose of cleaning it -- scrubbing the bathroom, mowing the lawn -- then, in my way of thinking anyway, the debt goes in the other direction. #ReadersUnite
The punitive rage directed at illegal immigrants grows out of a larger blindness to the manual labor that makes our lives possible, the touching belief in the class occupied by Rush Limbaugh, among many others, that offices clean themselves at night and salad greens spring straight from the soil o to ones plate. #ReadersUnite
There is no moral justification for a minimum wage lower than a living wage. And given the experience of the 29 states that have raised their minimum wages, there isn't even an amoral economic justification either. #ReadersUnite