Steven Blake is always smiling as he sells fruit to commuters on the Madison Street Bridge in Chicago. Just a few years ago he was living on the street. His modest business lifted him out of homelessness and has kept him out since 2017. Blake now employs other homeless Chicagoans, giving them a path out of poverty, too.
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