- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's much easier for people to compare wages or identify bad employers or discuss bad labor practices in the Internet economy than it was in, say, a factory environment, where that stuff wasn't usually published or available.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people are happy to give money to charities but are wary of giving through taxes because they feel it doesn't produce any value.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish the city of San Francisco, bastion of liberalism, were more innovative when it comes to how to spread the wealth.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Handouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom was a big feminist, and when I was growing up, I wasn't allowed to have typical girl toys: she did not let me have dolls. Barbies were banned in our household. She read feminist books to me; my mom was a major feminist.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always loved fashion and clothes. Not because I think that's a woman's place, but because I care about aesthetics. I like art; I like going to art museums, and to me, these things are just manifestations of one's aesthetic sense.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people are hungry for new ideas and leadership in the world of poverty alleviation. Most development programs are started and led by people with Ph.Ds in economics or policy. Samasource is part of a cadre of younger organizations headed by entrepreneurs from non-traditional backgrounds.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every woman that dies or loses her baby on a threadbare cot in the heart of Uganda, while her sisters on the other side of the world enjoy first-class care, is a threat to our collective humanity.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to thrive in the 21st century, you have to be a savvy citizen of the digital economy or risk being left behind.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
At Samasource, a company I founded in 2008, we train people living in poverty from Kenya to California to develop and market 21st century digital skills to adapt to new economic realities.
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020
Barbies were banned at our house, along with television other than PBS. As a kid, I found this horribly embarrassing.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd worked at the World Bank briefly as an undergrad and studied poverty levels around the world - particularly those earning less than $1.25 a day.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Impact sourcing, a new initiative piloted by the Rockefeller Foundation and several key partners, including my company Samasource, promises to connect poor and marginalized people to digital jobs on a massive scale.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I founded Samasource because I was frustrated by traditional approaches to poverty alleviation. Even those approaches focused on jobs often equip poor people with skills for which there is little market demand.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe there is no other way to create decent livelihoods for the world's poorest people than to connect them to global markets as producers, and on fair terms.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know what happens when a woman earns money. She is far more likely than a man to spend her earnings on the health and education of her children and to invest in improving her family's standard of living.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020