Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Originally published October 9, 2008.
Two years ago, statistics indicated that on any given day, some 120,000 workers are either looking for day labor, or working as a day laborer. But now that a weakening economy is beginning to put construction, home improvement and landscaping projects on hold, day laborers are finding their job opportunities drying up and incomes dwindling. In the first of a two-part series, Max Pringle reports on how San Francisco Bay day laborers are coping.
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