Author Barbara Ehrenreich to Speak on Campus

Gustavus will host social critic and author Barbara Ehrenreich, who wrote the best-selling book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America (2001). The highlight of Ehrenreich’s visit will be a public lecture at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 24. To write Nickel and Dimed, she experienced firsthand the plight of millions of Americans who work for poverty-level wages. She moved from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, taking the cheapest lodgings available and accepting work as a hotel maid, house cleaner, waitress, and Wal-Mart salesperson. Through her experience, she discovered — and wrote about — the difficulties involved with living at the poverty level. For more information, go to Ehrenreich Lecture.