No pretendo decir que los pobres son pobres porque no le echan ganas o basura optimista por el estilo. No obstante, leyendo la columna de Nicholas Kristoff en el New York Times me entero que algunas familias pobres ya sean de África o México, no tienen muy en claro sus prioridades: en vez de pagar la educación de menores o la renta de un lugar para vivir, los paterfamilias gastan el poco dinero que tienen en celulares y vicios.
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“It’s hard to get the money to send the kids to school,” Mr. Obamza explained, a bit embarrassed.
But Mr. Obamza and his wife, Valerie, do have cellphones and say they spend a combined $10 a month on call time.
In addition, Mr. Obamza goes drinking several times a week at a village bar, spending about $1 an evening on moonshine. By his calculation, that adds up to about $12 a month — almost as much as the family rent and school fees combined.
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