Scaping By: Ehrenreich Interview

H Leland lelandh at seiu.org
Wed May 16 14:39:28 PDT 2001


The Stone article can be downloaded at

http://www.prospect.org/print-friendly/print/V5/17/stone-d.html

--Hank Leland

Doug Henwood wrote:


> Roger Odisio wrote:
>
> >The problem was not only that they used her numbers to create a
> >"poverty" line, but which ones they chose and what they did with them.
> >But what's the basis for saying she was disturbed about it? Did you
> >hear the interview? Did she say so there? That's been my recollection
> >too, but I don't know where I got it; I can't remember seeing anything
> >she wrote that says that.
>
> I've seen her quoted in several articles saying that she'd never
> intended her work to be used the way it was. I think Deborah Stone
> had one in The American Prospect a few years ago. She wasn't too
> harsh about it, though.
>
> Doug



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