Nickel & Dimed revisited

In preparation for Nickel & Dimed's tenth anniversary, Salon.com has published an update from Barbara Ehrenreich that addresses how her experiment would work today:  If you haven't listened to the original audiobook, it's well worth it.

"In 2000, I had been able to walk into a number of jobs pretty much off the street. Less than a decade later, many of these jobs had disappeared and there was stiff competition for those that remained. It would have been impossible to repeat my 'Nickel and Dimed' 'experiment,' had I had been so inclined, because I would probably never have found a job."

Click here to read the rest of the article.

Click here for the audiobook.