#VelshiBannedBookClub

[@selenasimmons6653]

Excellent book...and it's all true..still relevant today...and now another one can be written about teachers, firefighters, local govt workers, social service professionals, retail management professionals, healthcare industry workers: living in their cars, working double, triple shifts, not able to afford housing, drowning in loans & debt...America needs to change now!!!

[@sjones3191]

What housing? Sending the coins everywhere else.

[@onewomanandsomesongs]

An excellent book, “Nickel and Dimed!” I lived the story myself in my younger years, working two minimum wage jobs together just to survive.

[@dorishruska3752]

ditto

[@yesreneau]

"Nickel and Dimed" opened my mind when I read it back in middle school, and I'm SHOCKED it's on a list of banned books

[@marvinmartin4692]

republicans don’t like there illusion challenged!

[@lauralafauve5520]

Nickel and Dimed - one of my favorite books.

[@claudia2.1]

Gosh thank you Ali Velshi for facilitating this segment! So compelling. Two fab books and brilliant women authors telling much needed stories! Will purchase both; Maid and Heartland.

[@ChopBassMan]

I've been dirt poor for a long time and have always done as much as I can (probably more than I am really able to) to help other poor folks. I have literally given away most everything I've owned over the past 25 years. The so called philanthropists don't make any where near that kind of effort (maybe with the exception of Bill Gates,but he's still one of the richest people in the world)

[@kellycook3914]

Wow! I read Barbara Ehrinreich's book and found it compelling 15 years ago as it does today!

[@marvinmartin4692]

I own nickel and dimed, it’s absolutely right on the money!!!! I personally have 20000.00 in credit card debt from medical, home, dental, expenses! I’m 66 and will never pay that off! My father passed away with over 80000.00 in debt from medical and other expenses! There is absolutely no hope everyday. And I have been working since age 12! And yes still working!

[@dorishruska3752]

Remember the working poor PAY taxes.

[@margaretkinnaman8585]

I read Nickel & Dimed and can recommend it highly. It's an excellent book and breaks down to language and ideas easily understood

[@2chuck]

People making minimum wage can't even afford to live in their car anymore. (Minimum wage won't even get you a junker car). There is a very valid reason there are so many living in tents under Freeway Overpasses and it's getting worse. It's outrageous and at some point, when food becomes unaffordable it's going to spill into the streets. When people lose all hope, they lose it. There is something very basic wrong with our Society when average people working full time can't afford a roof and food.

[@celestialtreetarot4260]

This is a great video segment. Thanks for doing this.

[@cja1026]

You know what the idol rich says "Let the market decide" and when the market flips the script, they complain that any increase in wages will cause inflation ❗ "Go figure"

[@Borvo1]

Yes, as george Calin once said, > “Conservatives say if you don’t give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they’ve lost all incentive because we’ve given them too much money.”

[@cantankruss]

*idle rich

[@cantankruss]

@@fuckyougeorgebush and who owns the US Gov... Corporations where the only free market they want is the Labor Market...

[@cantankruss]

@@fuckyougeorgebush twaddle speak

[@gloriaprimeau7318]

Thank all that participated of writing g about poverty ,and living it .There has to be a better way to support low income persons and family's. And for people with no way to save,not even for a emergency fund .when they verily make end meet and sometimes can't

[@niclewis9610]

GOP 2022 Platform Ban books Ban abortion Ban voting rights Ban transgender Ban healthcare choices Ban LGBTQI civil rights Ban word's Ban math Ban protests in public streets End social security End affordable care Act End veterans health care End Medicare and Medicaid Then tell us they're all about our FREEDOMS!

[@TheBlueThird]

Nickel and Dimed was a great book. I learned a lot from it. It was recommended to me by my former sociology processor.

[@Betleyman_7]

A book of this nature was written many years ago (1914) by English author Robert Tressell, its called the Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. It seems that the progress made to make a more egalitarian society after WW2 have been eroded. The situation is similar here in the UK and probably throughout the Western world which is reflected in the lurch toward right wing nationalistic politics.

[@Simo-nk1oq]

We as a collective should be more concerned that children aren’t actually learning to read.

[@cja1026]

In some states they are either burning 🔥📚 books or banning them. It's a wonder if the kids growing up today will know anything about anything and now they are taking away math🧮 🤯 books 📚 so they won't be able to read or count their money 💵. If you can't afford to buy 💰💵 💵💰 your kids an education📚📚, your kids👨‍👨‍👧‍👧 are f**ked.🤯😱 I guess cruelty is the point. Thank God🙏 for the internet 👨‍💻👩‍💻🧑‍💻 it's going to be our kids only means of obtaining the💻💻 knowledge they will need to succeed.

[@denillefleming2942]

That's because their parents don't read.

[@kellycook3914]

We can care about both. The subject is censorship so try to stay on topic.

[@Simo-nk1oq]

@@cja1026 yup, I pay horrendously high property taxes for nothing. And private schools weren’t cheap.

[@GeckoHiker]

Children, not able to read OR write! Defunding public education ensures a lower quality pool of workers who are also willing to buy anything they see advertised. Even fake food that harms their health. You need to be able to read in order to improve your life.

[@sjones3191]

That is a true quote. You have to balance your own family while ripping and running for peanuts. All types of conditions in the work place.

[@ew348]

Wow I worked for Branes & noble for 17 years. It's a great book new York times bestseller. This is shameful 😔

[@garrettolson5516]

wow! you covered barbara ehrenreich? you just went up a notch in my book... to 1.

[@johnpenley]

I loved this book...

[@ziegweid]

We have not created enough affordable housing over the past 20+ years

[@cynthiahutchins5790]

I think everyone thinks that YOU should getYOURSELF out of poverty. And the very worst are those that have benefitted from all manner of “help”, but wholly cow, you should not expect any help from them. But, I have to say, from the look of the people with money, I’d rather be poor.

[@democratpatriot6752]

Stephanie, you're in good company with Mark Twain and John Steinbeck!

[@terriej123]

Excellent segment! Ehrenreich’s passing is such a huge loss. By the way, who bans these books & where are they banned from exactly?

[@thruknobulaxii2020]

TBF. Now they know how the rest of the world feels.

[@midwid2809]

checking audible for those books...

[@christophersnyder1532]

One of those banned books had better be Trump's autobiography.

[@lmak7285]

Why ?

[@13bustah]

yes, since it would inform people of the corrupt people PRESIDENT TRUMP exposed that are now on their umpteenth witch hunt after him for telling the TRUTH.

[@winstonsmith8565]

I'm sure the libs will try to ban anything by Thomas Sowell lol

[@vote4democracyvotedemocrat154]

Magat moron crap

[@Paula-ps1vi]

😂😂😂

[@elenalatici9568]

Nickel and Dimed is BANNED??? So...that means Heartland will be banned as well? Or is it already?

[@mariettamullin322]

What she said.

[@dakota19021]

Martha's Vineyard residents celebrated Hispanic heritage month by kicking Hispanic immigrants off the island

[@stickyadventures4363]

@fun_fact - Makes you wonder, WTF are these States doing with that Federal money? 🤔

[@VV-lz1xp]

Are you referring to the residents of MV who welcomed the 50 immigrants illegally kidnapped by DeSantis and sent to MV where they were warmly greeted, provided food, shelter and immigrant lawyers to support them? Yeah that was horrible. Desantis and abbot should be investigated by DOJ immediately.

[@stickyadventures4363]

@@VV-lz1xp - Yes, it was nice what they did for those immigrants on Martha's Vineyard. However, having done business on that island before, delivering an EMT ambulance, and being Black, I can tell you from experience, they are treating these people this way, just because of the situation. They will move these people off that island quick, fast, and in a hurry...

[@denillefleming2942]

They moved them to get the services they need and to report to immagration service.

[@claudia2.1]

@fun_fact Red states are the Dead states. The GOP Kleptocrats will let you die for their profit.

[@Christian-di8zu]

And since democrats let in MILLIONS of unskilled laborers over the last 2 years don’t expect wages to be rising much!

[@13bustah]

or crime to drop

[@vote4democracyvotedemocrat154]

Pulled that out of your butt.

[@apprentessjgooden2263]

Says the descendant of a colonizer 🤦🏿‍♂️

[@Christian-di8zu]

@@apprentessjgooden2263 Are you a victim?

[@VV-lz1xp]

Yet we have a huge number of uneducated, unintelligent, unskilled Americans who want to blame immigrants because they have failed to adequately pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

[@garyjohnson8327]

Talk more about this, Less about race!!!!!

[@terriej123]

We can do both. We don’t have to choose.

[@winstonsmith8565]

WHO CARES? WHAT ABOUT BLACK WOMEN????

[@lmak7285]

What about black women ?

[@winstonsmith8565]

@@lmak7285 WE NEED MORE STORIES ABOUT BLACK WOMEN AND LESS STORIES ABOUT EVERYONE ELSE!!! MORE BLACK FEMALE MERMAIDS!🧜‍♀ MORE BLACK FEMALE MERMAIDS!🧜‍♀ MORE BLACK FEMALE MERMAIDS!🧜‍♀ MORE BLACK FEMALE MERMAIDS!🧜‍♀

[@Simo-nk1oq]

@@winstonsmith8565 Or a Merman from Murmansk.

[@winstonsmith8565]

@@Simo-nk1oq Or the head of a fish and big black onion booty.

[@Simo-nk1oq]

@@winstonsmith8565 yesssssss👍🏻

[@himoffthequakeroatbox4320]

Could they manage better by eating less avocados? Just asking questions. -- TC.