day laborer

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Ricardo, who earns a meager income as a day laborer, shares his small single-family house with 18 other people, including his three children, parents and other extended family.

From Barron's • Oct. 17, 2025

A day laborer, who identified himself as Ceasar, said around 6:45 a.m. a yellow Penske truck pulled up to the laborers who had gathered in the parking lot.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2025

He also represents the family of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a day laborer who was mistakenly deported to his native El Salvador in the spring, then returned on the order of a federal judge.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2025

Moyers was born June 5, 1934 in Hugo, Okla., the son of a dirt farmer and day laborer.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2025

"Then I certainly must despair of cure; you must yourself know that to carry on the work of a day laborer in my position is impossible."

From A Hero of the Pen by Werner, E.