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Summary: How does a guy whose mom is a heroin addict -- a guy who drops out of high school, has a kid, and starts working a minimum-wage job at a fast-food restaurant -- climb out of poverty? On today's podcast, we hear the answer from Katherine Newman, a sociologist who studied 300 fast-food restaurant workers in Harlem in the early '90s.