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As I rode the subway home last night, the cold had brought many homeless underground and around them were perimeters of empty seats because no one wanted to sit near them. As unemployment numbers get higher, as does the number of people requiring assistance to buy food, I was thinking how many would rather have those who struggle to survive and don’t fit into the norms because if their class, race, gender identity, immigration status, disappear. A group of unemployed day laborers have had no choice.

For the last few months, a group of immigrants who lost their jobs and have been unable to find work due to the economic crisis, live on the margins, in improvised caves in Plainfield and North Plainfield. My translation.

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