Contractors Divided Over Day Laborers. Long Island, New York

“The green pickup truck accented with stickers of yellow ribbons and U.S. flags belongs to Robert Stokes. A few yards away in the Home Depot parking lot, Tom Lippolt stretches out in his shiny, white pickup.

Both are contractors, in their forties, married, with homes near the ocean and annual incomes of $120,000. They both grew up in suburban Long Island. But they hold very different views of the day laborers who wait for contractors like them to cruise through the parking lot and offer them a day’s wage.”

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