October 30, 2008

New Charity Official Seeks to Close the Wealth Gap

By Cassie J. Moore

By Cassie J. Moore

In the early 1970s, Meizhu Lui took a major detour from her intended career path. She held a master's degree in Russian language from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign yet was unable to find a job that took advantage of those skills. When she was 27, she and her husband divorced, and she needed to find work to support her 7-year-old son.

She landed low-wage food-service jobs — first at Dunkin'

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