{"id":4216,"date":"2015-12-02T15:45:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T15:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2015\/12\/02\/shepherding-social-change-one-day-laborer-at-a-time\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:49:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:49:58","slug":"shepherding-social-change-one-day-laborer-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/shepherding-social-change-one-day-laborer-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Shepherding social change, one day-laborer at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/newsimg.furman.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/shutterstock_134687783-e1449070705838.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-20156 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/shutterstock_134687783-medium.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_134687783\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/199;\" \/><\/a>Derek Snook, a 2008 Furman University history graduate, spent time teaching in Kenya, chose to live a year in a Charleston homeless shelter, and worked for a short time as a day-laborer. Not long after, he and a business partner launched In Every Story, a non-traditional staffing company that pays higher wages, rewards reliability and hard work through profit sharing and bonuses, and aims to transition workers to full-time jobs. Journalist Stephanie Hunt writes about Snook\u2019s business model in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faithandleadership.com\/charleston-entrepreneur-writing-new-story-day-laborers\">Faith &amp; Leadership<\/a>, a publication of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity School. Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/\">www.shutterstock.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derek Snook, a 2008 Furman University history graduate, spent time teaching in Kenya, chose to live a year in a Charleston homeless shelter, and worked for a short time as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":15623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-history","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}