Barbara Ehrenreich

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#america #both #category #chronic #class

Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#away #company #developed #disposable #employee

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#exercise #version

Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#experimental #fascinating #i #other #people

I'm not a nice person. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#nice #nice person #person

If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#attribute #better #effort #entirely #essence

In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#blacks #clear #compared #evidence #fact

Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#companies #credit #high #including #insanely

Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#bankruptcy #cause #debts #medical

No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#debt #getting #hands #money #should