"Wage Slaves: Not Getting By" on A&E right now

[Kathy in Cambridge]

http://store.aetv.com/html/product/index.jhtml?id=18537

Description:

This eye-opening, two-hour INVESTIGATIVE REPORTSTM shows what it is like to work full time and remain forever hovering near the poverty line. In preparing her bestselling book, Nickel and Dimed in America, author Barbara Ehrenreich embarked on a grim odyssey through three cities and half a dozen minimum wage jobs. What emerges is a view of the American experience many of us would prefer to ignore, a rare look at how prosperity appears from the bottom looking up, and a critical examination of the policies that shape the harsh realities of life among the working poor.

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Barbara Ehrenreich's 'Nickel and Dimed' should be required reading for anyone who posts on DU, especially those that argue for regressive taxation.

[Nitrogenica]

1. Thanks I tuned in

[seabeyond]

2. what corporations are forgetting, a good working enviroment

helps to create profit for all. there needs to be a triangle of faith between employer, employee and customer. right now the employer is abusing his power, creating the unhappy customer and employee. that will show in the bottom line

there is a reason though why things have shifted. that ole pendulum of who has the power and if the abuse it

[Kathy in Cambridge]

3. At the same time, David Shipler is on BookTV

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375408908/103-9494796-5903842?v=glance

"The Working Poor : Invisible in America"

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. That's what I'm watching...

link to BOOKTV Schedule

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4116110#4116507

Post's #3, #8, & #25

on edit:
West Coast broadcast of "Wage Slaves: Not Getting By" on A&E 11 AM

[stellanoir]

5. Yeah I heard her interviewed when her book was

first published.

Also heard that 10 years ago a CEO in America would make in one week, on average, what an employee makes in a year.

In Europe a CEO currently makes in one month, on average what an employee makes in a year.

Currently in the US, a CEO makes on average what an employee makes in a year. . . .before lunchtime.

And we wonder why the middle class is being eroded.

It's disgusting.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

6. Lots of spin by RW economists

:eyes:

[wli]

7. intimate connection to other neocon policies

An unsubstantiated Mussolini quote: "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power."

[dogday]

8. Walmart Sucks

All the workers are wrong, yea right.... Walmart Sucks...

[Lindsey]

9. I think this is an excellent program - the Nickel and Dimed book

should be required for all Sociology classes.

[baldguy]

10. This is the downside of a Republican paradise.

Put megaCorporations in charge, allow them to turn middle-class jobs into low-wage jobs - then pretend that the poor are "paid what they're worth".

[Kathy in Cambridge]

11. The RW voices on that program were disgusting

blaming the pooor for their situation. :eyes: Compassionate conservatism in action.

[B Calm]

12. Blame the Cheap Labor Cons! Thanks I'll TIVO this for sure!

[Deja Q]

13. Nice rhetoric.Now get CEOs to be forced to live on the wages they dole out

and maybe I'll watch the show.