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USA Today: Growing number of Americans among day laborers - 12/01/09
Emily Bazar of USA Today offers "Unemployed U.S.-born workers seek day-labor jobs" (link):
Growing ranks of U.S. citizens are heading to street corners and home improvement store parking lots to find day-labor work usually done by illegal immigrants.
The trend is most pronounced in regions where hot construction markets have collapsed, says Abel Valenzuela Jr., a professor of urban planning at the University of California-Los Angeles.
"You had many, many unemployed construction workers who found themselves without any permanent or stable work," he says. "Some of them have gone on to seek...