Barbara Ehrenreich Series on Poverty from the NYT

I am not entirely a sold-out Barbara Ehrenreich fan, but this is a great current series on poverty.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/opinion/14ehrenreich.html?ref=opinion
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/opinion/12ehrenreich.html?ref=opinion
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/opinion/09ehrenreich.html?_r=1&em