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81-Year-Old Waitress in US Can't Retire, Struggles With $910 Social Security (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

I hate these “and then people pitched in to help” stories.

These are known as "feel-good feel-bad" stories.

https://thinkprogress.org/do-the-impossible-never-complain-live-the-dream-the-dark-morals-of-todays-feel-good-stories-63b38b4a4953/