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...wholesale reform of Cuban agriculture, which can't supply even staples like milk, with provisions like more profit-oriented farmers markets. That may well be followed by similar liberalization in service industries like tourism, where Cubans often make appreciably more than the nation's paltry $15-a-month average wage...
...everyone was rich. After a pit stop at McDonald's--Khattab insisted that his first food in America be a Happy Meal--Olwan pulled up to their new home, a low-slung warren of apartments on a hardscrabble stretch of West Indian School Road in Phoenix. The $450-a-month unit picked out for them had a busted air conditioner and cockroaches. It was sweltering inside. Faeza was distraught, and the manager of the building was nice enough to let her spend the weekend in the dressed-up unit used to lure new renters...
Paid volunteer work--an oxymoron for the ages--is increasingly the norm. Maxworthy takes a $2,000-a-month salary from his operation to make ends meet. It was that, or keep his old job--and last year alone his organization says the program touched 3 million lives. "So many people think if they don't have an enormous sum of money to leave to a philanthropic group, they can't leave an important legacy," says Marc Freedman, CEO of Civic Ventures, a nonprofit that promotes active aging. "But the way we use our experience--something we all have...
...food to transport - a five-minute taxi ride from the airport can break $20. Expat oil executives can pay without a problem, but locals struggle. "It's something crazy how high prices have gotten here," says Lisitsyn, speaking over the shouts of happy couples outside the cramped $745-a-month single room office his organization occupies upstairs from the municipal wedding hall. "But at the same time we still have people just barely surviving on fishing...
...bank, Gershon opened a small office offering secretarial services. But his computer broke last year, and he rarely gets any business. To make ends meet, Suzzy buys food at Accra's central market and then resells it around her neighborhood. The family is perpetually behind on its $16-a-month rent, and when I visited last August, the power in the house had been switched off after a meter reader said the meter had been installed illegally. The couple, who now have four children, including Wisdom, 2--Suzzy calls him "our surprise"--often wonder how they will...