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Michele wishes now that she had grown up in her squalid Haitian birth city of Port-de-Paix. When she was a young girl, her impoverished parents sent her to live with her more affluent aunt and uncle in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, with the promise of a better future. She got instead an old mattress in a closet, 18 hours a day of cooking, cleaning and waiting on her aunt's large family, and years of beatings and sexual abuse by her cousins. Her slavery continued when, a few years later, she was forced to emigrate with...
...benefits all Americans a little bit, but it disproportionately helps the wealthy. The amount saved by the wealthiest one percent of Americans, those earning over $900,000 a year, constitutes 43 percent of the total tax cut. Instead of spending most of this tax cut on the affluent, we need to help those Americans who need tax relief the most--working-class families...
Princeton even places strict conditions on the type of sponsors it accepts. Finkbeiner says corporations such as Burger King or Pizza Hut are not allowed to advertise. She says the school limits itself to banks and financial institutions that fit the affluent Princeton fan base...
This sort of exchange is becoming common in households as today's time-strapped and affluent parents increasingly hire help to do the chores they used to do themselves. Since both parents work at least part time in the majority of families, it's not surprising that nearly 20% of households hire help to clean, a percentage the Federal Government says is growing...
...Hundreds of (usually affluent) students pay $360 per year for Harvard Student Agencies' laundry service rather than using House laundry facilities...