Halfway through her best-selling Nickel and Dimed, a book examining the minimum-wage way of life, author Barbara Ehrenreich stops for a disquisition on cleaning other people’s toilets. “The first time ...
For one Ohio man, counting his nickels and dimes really paid off. James Jones, 70, bought a pickup — and paid half of the $16,000 price tag with coins. He carried them into the dealership in 16 coffee ...
Barbara Ehrenreich, the muckraking author, activist and journalist who in such notable works as “Nickel and Dimed” and “Bait and Switch” challenged conventional thinking about class, religion and the ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In 1998, acclaimed author Barbara Ehrenreich set out to research low-wage life ...
Among all the virtues of spring training in baseball's modern era, the best might just be what it does for team chemistry. It's where players develop the inside jokes that will sustain them all summer ...
Collecting coins like dimes and nickels has been a favorite hobby for many, and some coins in these categories can be surprisingly valuable. I’ve found that while many coins are common, there are ...
“The best way to describe this issue,” says Jake Adam York, editor of Copper Nickel, “is if you threw a rock into a body of water and watched those ripples move throughout. Where the rock hits is ...