Leaving Genoa in northwest Italy, Luigi Pastene arrived in Boston in 1848, and began selling produce from a pushcart in the city’s North End neighborhood. By the 1870s, permanently settled in the United States, he had been joined in business by his son Pietro, and the pair specialized in selling Italian imports including olive oil and tomato sauce from Naples in southern Italy.
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For many years, the first word most foreign visitors learned upon moving to Jakarta was macet, traffic jam.
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June Jambiha was a quintessential hustler. Like many in Kenya’s capital of Nairobi, she sold clothing as an informal entrepreneur, her income in 2018 swinging wildly, from $400 one month to $60 the next. This uncertainty made it nearly impossible to plan: hard to save, borrow, or commit to anything beyond the next week. But in Kenya, where over 80% of jobs are informal, hustling was less a choice than the only option available.
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Is it nuts to give cash to the poor without strings attached?
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