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Along with Warren Buffett and Toyota's troubles, NBC continued a heavy focus on the economy with a pair of poverty stories. Its closer, filed by Roger O'Neil, kicked off NBC's weeklong Making a Difference series, which will feature anecdotes about acts of kindness in the recession submitted by viewers. So All May Eat is the slogan of Denver's SAME Cafe, a restaurant-cum-soup-kitchen, where those who can afford to are encouraged to pay a little extra for their meals and those who cannot do the dishes or sweep the floor or bus the tables in exchange for victuals. SAME's menu posts no prices.
Chris Jansing filed shocking images "hauntingly reminiscent of the iconic photos of the '30s" in her report from the shadow of California's statehouse. "Along the railroad tracks in Sacramento a modern day shantytown is swelling," she showed us. Tent cities of the newly homeless are springing up in Seattle and Reno too. About 300 people live in the Sacramento Hooverville, "with more arriving every day."
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