Project aims to help Hispanics gain lost wages -Kansas City

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Posted on: March 5th, 2007
Filed Under: [ Community ] [ Hispanic News ] [ Kansas ]

“When Jesus Perez was not paid the nearly $3,200 he was promised for the 160 hours he worked pouring concrete for a residential construction company over a three-week period last fall, he did not turn to the government for help but to the Kansas City Worker Justice Project.

The Worker Justice Project is one of a growing number of nonprofit groups across the U.S. seeking to help immigrant workers collect unpaid wages.”

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