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City Watch
Thu, Aug 27, 2026 5:00 PM
THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF "NICKEL AND DIMED"
On Thursday, August 27, at 5:00 PM ET, host Jeff Simmons presents a special edition of City Watch commemorating the 25th anniversary of Barbara Ehrenreich’s groundbreaking book, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America.
Jeff will be joined by authors and journalists Alissa Quart and Deirdre English for a conversation about Ehrenreich’s life and legacy, the enduring influence of Nickel and Dimed, and what the book continues to reveal about low-wage work, poverty, housing, economic insecurity, and the struggle to make ends meet in America.
Quart created the Economic Hardship Reporting Project with Ehrenreich and is the author of books including Bootstrapped and Squeezed. English was Ehrenreich’s longtime friend and collaborator and coauthored several books with her. Both contributed to “Nickel and Dimed Forever,” a new retrospective appearing in the September issue of The Nation.
Listen Thursday, August 27, from 5:00 to 6:00 PM on WBAI 99.5 FM in New York or stream live at wbai.org.
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