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Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich was a contributing editor to Harper’s Magazine from 1999 to 2012. Her best-selling book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (2001) originated as a piece of undercover reportage published in the January 1999 issue of the magazine, for which she received the Hillman Prize in 2000. In her introduction to the book, Ehrenreich recalls how, during a lunch with Harper’s editor Lewis H. Lapham, their conversation turned to the difficulty of living on low wages.…

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