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		<title>If there&#8217;s a war on the middle class, I&#8217;m enlisting to fight for it!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[After writing Bait and Switch (a book you should all buy, as well as these other other texts), author Barbara Ehrenreich explains, " [it] inspired me to do something totally new . . . build an organization for unemployed, underemployed, and anxiously employed white collar workers. My research on the book showed me that college-educated workers are extremely vulnerable to downward mobility [my emphasis], and often end up in the kinds of low-wage jobs I had done for Nickel and Dimed.]]></description>
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		<title>Is United Professionals Elitist?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an email conversation between UP member Pamela Allee and UP site editor Diane Alexander:

 

Pamela writes:

 

 Everyone deserves to earn a good living!  Let's stop the nonsense that people without degrees are less deserving of respect, etc. -- so often by those with degrees.  Possession of a degree does not necessarily indicate anything more than privilege.]]></description>
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