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LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Earlier this week Bank of America and other large banks backed down from charging its customers to use their debit card, but that hasn’t stopped them from looking for other ways to make money. But consumers are fighting back with a national Bank Transfer Day happening on Saturday. bill Nugent says [...]

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Ahh, student loan debt relief. I remember it all too well: the student loan debt of my college days is what got me started on a long road of bills. First it was the student loan debt, then the credit card debt — since I didn’t have any money to buy anything and was negative [...]

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A year ago the Tea Party was protesting against the various health care bills being floated around Washington. Town Hall meetings were getting started and the politicians soon realized their constituents had concerns and voiced them. most of us were trying to understand what the various options meant and how they might affect the wellbeing [...]

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Jon Crispin PhotoJames Emery, Trenda Loftin and Sara Whitcomb in Nickel and Dimed In his 1933 memoir Down and out in Paris and London, middle-class, Eton-educated George Orwell related his experiences living hand to mouth at the bottom of the social and economic heap. Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich’s 2001 account of living among America’s [...]

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It seems like you got a great deal on your rental car at $19.99 a day but before long you find the price skyrocketing as your bill is rung up at the rental counter. there are the sales taxes, airport surcharges, licensing fees, and the car rental travel insurance – suddenly you are having melt [...]

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Sept. 27 (Bloomberg) — Wall Street protesters, joined today by Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon, vowed to continue weeks of demonstrations after police squirted pepper spray at some participants and arrests mounted. About 100 people camped out with mattresses and sleeping bags in Zuccotti Park as demonstrations against financial firms continued for an 11th day. Sarandon, [...]

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Ten years ago, in her book “Nickel and Dimed,” Barbara Ehrenreich chronicled her own experience as a subsistence-level American wage-earner during a period of relative economic vigor. she found a whole class of workers who lived — and would always live — from paycheck to paycheck. In the afterword to the recently published tenth-anniversary edition [...]

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I’ve been carrying on an online relationship for nearly eight years. It’s intense; we meet almost as often as I check Facebook. and, like the best relationships, it’s one of revelation and acceptance. My online love knows I have a thing for high-fashion, behind-the-scenes in Hollywood and Spanish as a second language. Best of all, [...]

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Ehrenreich, Barbara. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. New York:  Metropolitan  Books, 2001. Print. in Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, Barbara Ehrenreich told about her personal day to day life as she went undercover in order to see if people can really get by on the low wages [...]

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Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com It was at lunch with the editor of Harper’s Magazine that the subject came up: How does anyone actually live “on the wages available to the unskilled”?  And then Barbara Ehrenreich said something that altered her life and resulted, improbably enough, in a bestselling book with almost two million copies [...]

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