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**Barbara Ehrenreich** is author of the 2002 _New York Times_ bestseller _Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America_. She has written nearly twenty books, and has been a columnist for _Time_ magazine and the _New York Times_. She has contributed to _The Progressive, Harpers, The Atlantic Monthly, Ms., The New Republic, Z Magazine, In These Times,_ and Salon.com. **Deirdre English** is the former editor of _Mother Jones_ magazine. She has written for the _Nation, New York Times Book Review, San Francisco Magazine, S.F. Chronicle Sunday Magazine, Vogue_ , and public radio and television. Currently, English is a professor at University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.