day laborer

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The day laborer center is more than just a workplace, said Jose, who asked to withhold his last name for fear of retaliation by immigration agents.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2025

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

Fiction at Sundance this year, “Trokas Duras” is a lush depiction of a day in the life of a day laborer, or jornalero, in L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 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

Finally he imparted the surprising information that he had secured work as a day laborer at the war camp, Mr. Jefferson Simpson having vouched for him.

From The Camp Fire Girls Behind the Lines by Vandercook, Margaret O'Bannon Womack