2 posts from day 29/10/2013

That Day a Stranger Folded YOUR Laundry

My laundry had been occupying two big dryers in the building’s basement laundry room all afternoon while I ran errands and juggled conference calls. But instead of finding it piled in a heap on a bench, as usually happens when another tenant is impatient for dryer space, I saw an older woman serenely folding my towels, sheets and underwear.

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5 Lies You’ve Been Told About the Poor

1. Anyone who works hard enough in America will have a great life. And if you don't have a great life, then you lack the will, integrity or intelligence to succeed. 2. The poor are unemployed. 3. Poor equals black. 4. The poor refuse to work. 5. Education necessarily remedies poverty.

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