laborer

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The government’s explanations for the arrests, wrote Judge Jennifer Thurston in Fresno, “rely on unsupported assumptions, hunches and generalizations about the relationship between a person’s apparent status as a day laborer and their immigration status.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2026

The glamour of Wall Street had replaced the dignity of the skilled laborer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

Tincher was now a manual laborer on one leg, but he was denied disability benefits by the Social Security Administration the following year.

From Salon • Nov. 2, 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

He always quoted the Prophet Muhammad: “Pay the laborer his wages before his sweat dries.”

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers