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RagingBull

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Looks like it's okay when a designer says this...
« on: March 30, 2014, 04:22:27 PM »
Isn't this ideology central to conservative thinking?  Apparently when a "cool" person says it, CNN runs with it. 

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2014/03/living/cnn10-visionary-women/?hpt=hp_c2

"As a product design student at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Veronika Scott developed a heavy-duty, lightweight coat that turned into a sleeping bag, as part of a class project. It seemed like the perfect product to help homeless people, until a woman in a shelter shouted at Scott one day: “We don’t need coats; we need jobs.”

In January 2012, a month after graduation, Scott launched the Empowerment Plan, a nonprofit that employs homeless women and teaches them to sew by making the coat. With stable, paying jobs, they’re empowered to decide what kind of job they want next, “to decide what kind of person they want to become,” she said."