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Goldman Sachs Staffers To Serve Thanksgiving Meals To Needy

After admitting it did some things that were "wrong" and donating a pittance to help small business, Goldman Sachs continues to attempt some public penance by announcing a several hundred employees will serve Thanksgiving dinners to the needy next week. The Post reports that at the Salvation Army dinners, "The so-called masters of the universe will wait on downtrodden diners as if they were in a Michelin-star restaurant, bus their tables, then take out the trash afterwards."

      

The annual Canstruction sculptures are on display at the World Financial Center. As the Canstruction website explains, "Teams of architects, engineers, and students mentored by these professionals, compete to design and build giant structures made entirely from full cans of food...At the close of the exhibitions all of the canned food used in the structures is donated to local food banks for distribution to emergency feeding programs that include pantries, soup kitchens, elderly and day care centers."

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