Halfway through her best-selling Nickel and Dimed, a book examining the minimum-wage way of life, author Barbara Ehrenreich stops for a disquisition on cleaning other people’s toilets. “The first time ...

Among the six actors in Nickel and Dimed, now playing at Kitchen Dog Theater, only the lead, Kristina Baker, is a member of the Actors’ Equity Association. That means something in this show that it ...

Barbara Ehrenreich published Nickel & Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America in 2001 partly as a response to President Clinton’s 1996 reorganization of welfare, which kicked recipients off the rolls if ...

Kearsten Peterson is a student at Northwest Missouri State University who is frustrated by the fees she’s charged. “I'm paying fees for things that I don't even use or necessarily need,” she says.

In 1998, acclaimed author Barbara Ehrenreich set out to research low-wage life firsthand, confident she was prepared for the worst. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that ...

Stage West is continuing its second full season of performances and special events with NICKEL & DIMED by Joan Holden, adapted from the best-selling novel, "Nickel and Dimed, On (Not) Getting by in ...

At the time Ehrenreich wrote Nickel and Dimed, and for decades before and after, she was a voice in the dark. When so many of her generation had abandoned the struggle for even slight political ...

Like many, I recently attended a performance of the play, "Nickel and Dimed," at Bismarck State College. I also purchased the book for an English composition class and received assignments in other ...