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Amid few jobs, construction worker struggles to cope

By Gayathri Vaidyanathan and Mirela Iverac (December 2008) Raoul Osario used to earn $2000 a month; now he tries to support himself and his nine-year-old son, Jonathan, with just $130. “I could afford anything for the first 45 years of my life,” said Osario, 50, a superintendent of a building in Jackson Heights, Queens. He [...]

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