[Unedited] Ai-jen Poo with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Opportunity Is Here
It is among, i think, the greatest ironies in our culture, that the people that we're counting on to take care of us can't take care of themselves and their own families doing this work. The opportunity here is to transform that really for the 20 first century. I mean, manufacturing jobs used to be poverty wage, dangerous jobs that a lot of immigrant women did. And we transformed that work into dignified work that one generation could do better than the next. That is the opportunity here with this job, and with so many other low age service jobs that really define our economy to day.
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