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That’s a broad swath of Californians — including many bartenders and hairdressers, small business owners and their employees, farmers and farm workers, freelancers, ride-share drivers, and those working multiple part-time gigs to make ends meet.

The reporting won him the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, making him the first freelancer ever to win in that category.

After six months of filming and fronting street interview ads himself, Suggs was able to turn most days in the park over to a team of staff and freelancers.

He told a BBC freelancer: "Even if the house is destroyed, even if it's just rubble, we'll go back, put up a tent, and return to our people."

"We are waiting, sitting by the crossing. My son and I slept here last night, on the pavement, in the cold, waiting to go back home," he told a BBC freelancer.