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• ‟ It's much easier for people to compare wages or identify bad employers or discuss bad labor practices in the Internet economy than it was in, say, a factory environment, where that stuff wasn't usually published or available.

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• ‟ We have people from places like Oracle, Microsoft, Intuit. Sama plays a huge role in why people leave lucrative careers to join a social enterprise.

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• ‟ At Samasource, a company I founded in 2008, we train people living in poverty from Kenya to California to develop and market 21st century digital skills to adapt to new economic realities.

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• ‟ Impact sourcing, a new initiative piloted by the Rockefeller Foundation and several key partners, including my company Samasource, promises to connect poor and marginalized people to digital jobs on a massive scale.

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• ‟ A lot of people are happy to give money to charities but are wary of giving through taxes because they feel it doesn't produce any value.

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• ‟ I founded Samasource because I was frustrated by traditional approaches to poverty alleviation. Even those approaches focused on jobs often equip poor people with skills for which there is little market demand.

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• ‟ I believe there is no other way to create decent livelihoods for the world's poorest people than to connect them to global markets as producers, and on fair terms.

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• ‟ Much like the opportunities that factory work provided for working-class Americans in the last century, microwork will provide opportunities for marginalized people in this one. All they really need is basic literacy, a cheap computer, and an internet hookup.

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• ‟ The more time I spent in developing countries, and the more time I spent talking to poor people, I realized what they want more than anything is a good job.

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• ‟ Traditional charity is still fairly focused on how it makes donors feel as opposed to outcomes for people that need help.

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• ‟ The problem in a lot of low-income countries is that people take out loans to go and get degrees, which are then irrelevant in the job market.

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