“(Money Magazine) — Writer Barbara Ehrenreich may be best known for chronicling the troubles of low-wage earners in her 2002 bestseller “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America.”

But these days she’s putting her consciousness-raising to work for a less obviously needy group: white-collar workers.

Why? As Ehrenreich sees it, outsourcing, downsizing and increasing Wall Street pressure have made them as disposable as blue-collar workers. In September she launched United Professionals (unitedprofessionals.org) to support these “unemployed, under-employed and anxiously employed” Americans. …”

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