Word: netzahualc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...workers are expected to lose their jobs next year. Yet those figures, harsh as they are, understate the problem. According to Mexican labor leaders, 40% of the labor force is underemployed, meaning a hand-to-mouth existence of marginal, unskilled, part-time work. In the grimy urban jungle of Netzahualcóyotl, a onetime Mexico City slum that has now become a full-scale city of nearly 3 million, Plumber José Vásquez is one of many who contemplate an increasingly desperate future. Says he: "Life is very hard now. It will get worse. I will defend myself...
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