Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich (1941-2022) was an American author, journalist, and activist known for her investigative work on social injustice and economic inequality, most famously her 2001 bestseller *Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America*, where she documented her undercover experiences in low-wage jobs.[1][2] She wrote 21 books, contributed to publications like *The New York Times*, *Time*, *Ms.*, and *Mother Jones*, and founded the Economic Hardship Reporting Project to support journalism on poverty.[1][4][6] Ehrenreich received the Erasmus Prize in 2018 for her pioneering participatory journalism and was the first chair of the Democratic Socialists of America.[2][3]

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