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Author: Helaine Olen

Helaine Olen is a columnist for Slate and the author of Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry and co-author of the upcoming The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn't Have to be So Complicated.

Co-published with The Atlantic. Fast-casual restaurants may appeal to yuppies, but for workers they're hardly different from McDonald's.

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