The wealth gap between America’s 1% and all the rest of us is wide and getting wider. But it didn’t start with us.
At least, not all of us.
In 1989, author and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich highlighted the growing struggles of not just the poor, but the middle class. And in particular, the professional middle class, the “white collar” middle class.
What is startling and sobering is that this 36 year old interview foreshadowed so much of what our current economy looks like.
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And of course, in this interview when Barbara Ehrenreich talks about the young people entering the workforce: Gen X, she’s talking about you
Barbara Ehrenreich’s book was called Fear of Falling. I was in my mid-30s when I did this interview and it hit home for me.
So here now, from 1989, Barbara Ehrenreich.
Barbara Ehrenreich died in 2022. She was 81