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Bait and Switch: End of the White Collar American Dream?
October 7, 2005
Barbara Ehrenreich social critic, writer

Barbara Ehrenreich discusses her new book Bait and Switch: End of the White Collar American Dream?. She raises questions about whether education still assures access to the American Dream; whether the middle class has reached the limit of its potential for upward mobility; and what happens to democracy without a stable middle class.

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