how dare you take my tax dollars to pay for your children s meal when in fact it is quite the opposite. this group of people is being disproportionately exploited for their labor. i would argue even to some extent they are expletives the taxes if you look at the percentage that they contributed compared to their incomes. stephanie, part of why barbara s books were challenged, for this book was challenged was because there s always a veiled, or not so veiled attack on the capitalistic system. she does talk about, they live in substandard housing so other homes will be shining perfect. that s a little bit of your story. do you agree with her evaluation here? i do. it is hard to see it that way when you re living it. i didn t feel like a philanthropist when i was living in a multi-apartment and making sure that everybody s lives looked perfect on the outside for a living. it is very demeaning it that
he tried to walk this line from the beginning of saying that it wasn t his war and he was going to do what was best for hungary. in fact, he was reelected on this kind of nationalist platform. everyone knows that he is very tied to putin and he has been very reluctant to have sanctions and forego russian oil. he agreed that they would pay rubles, for example. he has agreed to some of putin s conditions. now, everything is changing because putin is in trouble and we ll have to see what orban does. he s a very transactional individual so he is going to do what is best for him to stay in power. thank you for joining us tomorrow, almost from australia. doctor ruth, she s a professor of history at nyu. still to come, a special edition of the book club featuring the book nickel and dime by the late barbara aaron right. i ll be joined by two authors you know what it is mean to work very hard to earn very little, stick around. work very hard to earn ver little, stick around little, stick aro
eye-opening for a lot of people, especially the time that it came out in 1996. i read it sometime around there. i read it when it first came out because all of my barista friends were like, oh my goodness, this person wrote about waitressing. it was amazing and then later on when i read the book as i was revising and editing made i learned that the whole entire book is basically about finding secure housing. for me, that was so normal in my life that i didn t even think about this. to a point that stephanie made a few moments ago, sarah, i want to ask you throughout nickel and dime there are references about barbara and her coworkers being faced with bodily and psychological harm. i want to talk about the psychological harm. from page 15 in the book, she writes, if you are treated as an untrustworthy person, a