Word: worker
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...Italy to find better-paying jobs. Today, some 70% of the neighborhood is supported by monthly checks from Rome or Milan. Now, Italian-inspired villas crowd the town's hilly streets. There are flat-screen TVs, luxury cars and pricey Toblerone chocolates. But, as Florian De Jesus, a social worker in the area, observes, "In Italy, there are more women...
...opportunities at home. Isabel Pedrosa, who lives in a village near Mabini and whose 20-year-old son has been immobile since birth with severe cerebral palsy, says her family's state health insurance covers some bills but not all of them. Her husband is a construction worker in Qatar. "If not," she says, "we wouldn't be eating three times...
...university, but she says the feeling of being deserted has never left her. Now 27, with a good local job as a bank teller, Diaz has to decide whether to join her entire family in Italy, where she'd make more money even as a domestic worker, or stay in Little Italy and raise Magnus alone. "I know my parents worked so hard for me to finish school so I could get an education and not go into domestic work," she says. And Diaz does not want her son to go through what she did. "The income I could earn...
...felt finally to have an African-American on the ballot. "He's bi-racial. I don't know why you all keep saying that. He's for all the people, and all the eyes of the world are on us today," said Sharon Weathers, 40, an unemployed mental health worker...
...Trump's development is still far from a sure thing. Standing in his way is Michael Forbes, a fisherman and quarry worker who has refused all lucrative offers from the American billionaire to sell his ancestral home, which sits in the middle of the property slated for the development. Trump has said that he can build around the Forbes property, but conservation groups say there may be access requirements that would impinge on such plans...