Day Laborers Find Jobs Scarce

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The San Francisco Day Labor Program has seen a dip in the number of jobs available. Photo courtesy of Mission Local

By Guadalupe González, Mission Local
It is  a bright Thursday morning, and 10 men are outside the San Francisco Day Labor Program and Women’s Collective. Inside,  30 more men sit in the waiting room. A few check e-mail and Facebook on the four computers available. In the back, a thin man plucks the strings of a guitar. All of the day laborers are waiting patiently for their names to be called for work.
By 11 a.m., no one had been called.

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