Great Story from Planet Money (NPR)

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Great Story from Planet Money (NPR)

by Mark Hazleton on 07/07/2010 09:02 0 comments , 195 views

I heard this last week and it keeps bouncing around in my head. Great story, with lots of ways to learn from the lessons within. . .

Clipped from www.npr.org

< For $3,860, A New Life

ADAM DAVIDSON: I met Yvrose in February, right after the earthquake, which had destroyed all her stock, killed many of the customers who owed her money. She was destitute. And the next day she had to make a $100 payment to the bank. She had nothing but a tub full of chicken necks she was selling for a few pennies each.

Ms. BAPTISTE: (Through translator) I don’t know if my husband was getting jealous. He left me suddenly.

DAVIDSON: He left you when you got the money?

She explains that the power shift in the household was just too much for him. Several Haitian friends told me they were not surprised by this. Men like to run the house.

She says that now, since she still lives in a tent, she’s constantly worried that someone will come by and steal from her, or worse, and she won’t have a man to fight them off.