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Cara Michelle Smith

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(i don’t use twitter anymore.) finance reporter & satire writer. work in @newyorker @salon @nerdwallet @theonion @marketwatch @mcsweeneys @reductress + more.
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Life With My Two Latest Rescues

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By Cara Michelle Smith, Shannon Fletcher
| happytailsmagazine.co.za
Wynand (left) and Cooper (right) Written by Cara Smith Photography by Shannon Fletcher I’ve been fostering animals for years; it brings me more joy than anything else in this life. As a consequence of fostering, I’ve had a few “foster fails”. There are many more I would have loved to keep, but with these two, the timing was right, the circumstances were right – and we were finally able to adopt them.
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"Made no money, had no benefits": Companies are selling people on cheaper perks

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By Cara Michelle Smith
| Salon Verified
After I read the report that led to this story, I put out some feelers on social media, asking folks to tell me about their job benefits — specifically, if their company’s description of its benefits would match an employee’s description of those same benefits.
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FOMO economy: Social media is driving Gen Z into debt

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By Cara Michelle Smith
| Salon Verified
The phrase “keeping up with the Joneses” first appeared in 1850 in The New Yorker, describing how the neighbors of Elizabeth Schermerhorn Jones, a wealthy New York socialite, were so intimidated by her summer home in the Hudson Valley that many were prompted to renovate their own properties to, as the magazine put it, keep up with the Joneses. Since then, the idiom has found a home in the competitive arena of middle-class America.
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