NEWS
Patron Saint of Low-Wage Workers to Visit UB
By SAMANTHA MAZIARZ AND CHRISTEL MCGRANOR | Oct. 25, 2004In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich sat at a swanky business lunch with her editor and discussed the welfare reforms that were about to push four million women into a workforce that generally paid $6 or $7 an hour.That conversation took her from her six-figure salary to the trenches where she scrubbed toilets and waited tables alongside the working poor.
