NPR : Katrina Cleanup Puts Focus on Latino Workers

“Two months after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf area, crews of Latino workers are helping to rebuild the region. In New Orleans, they’re tearing down moldy sheetrock, clearing out festering carpets, patching up roofs. At area landfills, they do some of the dirtiest, nastiest work around: hauling, then cleaning out moldy refrigerators discarded after the storms.

“Yeah, it stinks,” says Jose Gandara, who was born in Guanajuato, Mexico. He’s been earning $200 a day — sometimes working 12 hours — hauling refrigerators to the dump.”

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