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MONEY TALKS
“The ‘working poor’ are, in fact, the major philanthropists of our society: they neglect their own children so that the children of others will be cared for, they live in substandard housing so that other homes will be shiny and perfect, they endure privation so that inflation will be low and stock prices high. To be a member of the working poor is to be an anonymous donor, a nameless benefactor, to everyone else. As one of my restaurant coworkers put it, ‘You give and you give.’ “Someday, they are bound to tire of getting so little in return and to demand to be paid what they’re worth.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich, from her book ‘Nickel and Dimed:On (Not) Getting By in America’
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