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“Wilfredo Montes came from Texas to this city about a year and a half ago for good work and good pay: gutting homes and clearing debris from neighborhoods left waterlogged by Hurricane Katrina. He worked six or seven days a week, for up to $15 an hour.
These days, Montes often finds work only two or three days a week, and the pay rate has shrunk by nearly half. Yet hes staying, at least for now. The hourly wage still far exceeds the federal minimum of $5.15. In fact, the $8 for an hours work is nearly as much as hed earn in a full day back in Chinandega, Nicaragua, where he used to sell steaming plates of rice and beans”
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