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Book Review: Nickel and Dimed – On (Not) Getting By in America

By The Banker | Book Reviews, Inequality

Most of the books I review on Bankers Anonymous purport to give insight, for the non-financier, into how Wall Street works, a main theme for this site.  This book review, however, aims to give Wall Streeters insight into the life of the woman who cleans your house. Barbara Ehrenreich engaged in stunt journalism in order

Tags: inequality, stunt journalism, what its like, working poor
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  I founded Bankers Anonymous because, as a recovering banker, I believe that the gap between the financial world as I know it and the public discourse about finance is more than just a problem for a family trying to balance their checkbook, or politicians trying to score points over next year’s budget – it is a weakness of our civil society. For reals. It’s also really fun for me.

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