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Article: `The Working Poor' _ how America exploits people living in poverty.(The Hartford Courant)
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- March 24, 2004
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Byline: Steve Courtney
``The Working Poor: Invisible in America'' by David K. Shipler; Knopf ($25)
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Suppose that a few years after Shakespeare wrote "Hamlet," a fine journalist wrote an excellent study of the problems of Danish princes, of patricide and matricide, indecision and existence. Let's say he used economical prose with a fine passion, quoted "Hamlet" and got Shakespeare to write a book jacket blurb.
That's the position of David K. Shipler vis-a-vis the 2001 work "Nickeled and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich, which has become a reference point in discussions of the grim lives of the ...
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