Non-Fiction Pick of the Week: This Land is Their Land

This Land is Their Land : Reports From a Divided Nation by Barbara Ehrenreich

This Land is Their Land : Reports From a Divided Nation is a collection of previously published essays about the growing gulch between the haves and have-nots and what used to be the middle class in America. Full of wit and irony, the author, Barbara Ehrenreich analyzes how wealthy individuals and corporations are sadly broadening the gap by engineering social, political, and economic policies that continue to disadvantage the middle class and poor. She also darkly diagnoses other issues including illegal immigrants, military families, unemployment, health insurance, corporate spying, cancer, and more. It’s a real eye opener on a theme that is being touted more and more in the U.S. (and Canada!). Read an essay or two, give yourself time to digest the information, then try a few more. Most of her arguments are sound, her presentation easy to absorb.