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Barbara Ehrenreich, muckraking writer and activist, dies

FILE - Author Barbara Ehrenreich poses at her home in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 25, 2005. Ehrenreich, the muckraking author, activist and journalist who in such notable works as “Nickel and Dimed” and “Bait and Switch" challenged conventional thinking about class, religion and the very idea of an American dream, died Thursday morning, Sept. 1, 2022 in Alexandria, Virginia, according to her son. She was 81. (AP Photo/Andrew Shurtleff, File) FILE - Author Barbara Ehrenreich poses at her home in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 25, 2005. Ehrenreich, the muckraking author, activist and journalist who in such notable works as “Nickel and Dimed” and “Bait and Switch" challenged conventional thinking about class, religion and the very idea of an American dream, died Thursday morning, Sept. 1, 2022 in Alexandria, Virginia, according to her son. She was 81. (AP Photo/Andrew Shurtleff, File)