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Margaret Carlson
Margaret Carlson is a columnist for the
Daily Beast
. She was formerly the first woman columnist at
Time
magazine, a columnist at Bloomberg View, a weekly panelist on CNN’s “Capital Gang” and managing editor at the
New Republic.
Nir Elias / Reuters
Tip Your Hotel Maid
My grandmother worked in housekeeping for 10 years—and it’s a job where you could use a gratuity.
Margaret Carlson
June 16, 2019