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Thursday, December 08, 2011

Rich, Poor Gap Will Show Up Under The Tree

NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES — Adriana Garcia won't be buying her family Christmas gifts this year.
The 26-year-old from Huntington Park, California lost her job as a teacher's assistant last year and now works part-time at a Jamba Juice near Los Angeles.
Her husband, a security guard unable to work since hurting his hand three months ago, is not yet getting his disability checks. The couple spends on the basics: food and rent.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

For most of the Common Era, Christmas was not the commercial free-for-all it is today.

It's a hard, sometimes painful lesson to learn "you can't always get what you want" but maybe it's one we Americans need to learn.

I've been there, and it sucks, but now I'm wiser for the experience.