how many retail stores can you name where day laborers wait for work and has any one of them asked you?

Question

for money

Answer 1

Hmmmm they all line up here in plain sight of the BP....NONE have ever asked for money, they have asked if I needed any work done on my home but never just for money....ILLEGALS ARE NOT BEGGARS! GOOD POINT!

Answer 2

In our town they gather at the hispanic stores, when I need something from the one of the stores they do not bother you they wait until they are approached. It's not like people think; that they bombard you and try to get any work they can find. My husband has used them on several occasions when he didn't have anybody else. They work good, and don't complain, will do anything you ask. But none has just came out and asked for money, they work for what they get.

Answer 3

Home Depot, Lowe's, Menard's in the upper Midwest, other local building supply companies. I used to work at a Lowe's when I was about 20. Day laborers; almost all of them were hispanic, illegal immigrants, were there early in the morning waiting on contractors.

Answer 4

Home Depot. YEs.

Answer 5

You and day laborers who gives a crap , Get over it why don't you get a job and shut the funk up . dam .

Answer 6

home depot attracts them like white on rice

Answer 7

Im not sure about what stores they work for.They mostly work for factories and such.

Answer 8

Home Depot, no

Answer 9

u go store with me we buy 40 oz i big spender COMMOM

Answer 10

US poverty rate rises again
August 31, 2005 - 7:14AM

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The US poverty rate rose in 2004 for the fourth year in a row, driven by an increase in poor whites while the median income for Americans as a whole remained roughly flat, the government said.

The percentage of the US population living in poverty rose to 12.7 per cent from 12.5 per cent in 2003, as 1.1 million more people slipped into poverty last year, the Census Bureau said in its annual poverty report.

The ranks of the poor rose to 37.0 million from 35.9 million the previous year, the report said.

The Bush administration called the 2004 increase "modest" and said the rise was not altogether surprising. Poverty rates typically lag improvements in employment and the economy in general, said Elizabeth "E.R." Anderson, associate undersecretary for communications and chief of staff in the Commerce Department's Economics and Statistics Administration.

The Census said the poverty rate rose through 1993 despite the early 1990s recession hitting a trough in March 1991.

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Advertisement"What's happening ... is kind of similar to what happened in the early 1990s where you have a recession officially over and then several more years after that a rise in poverty," said Charles Nelson, assistant division chief in the Census' Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division.

"We're seeing the same thing today," he said.

But some economists said the data was still worse than expected.

"The economy looks pretty snappy from 30,000 feet, but when you get down and look at how actual working families are doing, they're falling behind year after year," said Jared Bernstein, senior economist at Economic Policy Institute.

"The main reason for that appears to be the fact that the job market has yet to generate the kind of increases in living standards you'd expect at this point," he said

The average poverty threshold in the United States for a family of four was an income of $19,307, the Census Bureau said. It was $15,067 for a family of three, $12,334 for a family of two and $9,645 for individuals.

The data showed three groups driving changes in poverty in the United States - whites, Midwesterners and people aged 18 to 64.

Non-Hispanic whites were the only group that saw its poverty rate rise to hit 8.6 per cent for 2004 compared with 8.2 per cent in 2003. The poverty rate declined for Asians and remained unchanged for blacks and Hispanics, the report showed.

The Midwest was the only region where income declined, down 2.8 per cent to $44,657, the report said.

Nationwide, real median household income in 2004 totalled $44,389, roughly flat from 2003, the Census said. Real median household income has crept lower each year since 1999, the data showed.

Black households had the lowest median income among race groups, at $30,134, while Asian households had the highest, at $57,518. The median-income for non-Hispanic white households was $48,977 and was $34,241 for Hispanic households.

Among age groups, the poverty rate increased for people 18 to 64. It declined for those age 65 and older and held unchanged at 17.8 per cent for children under 18, the data showed.

The number of people with health insurance coverage rose, as did the number of people without it. That left the percentage of the US population without health insurance coverage unchanged at 15.7 per cent in 2004, Census said.

Government health insurance programs covered a higher percentage of people in 2004 than the year prior, while employment-based health insurance covered a smaller percentage of people.

"Public programs such as Medicaid and SCHIP (State Children's Health Insurance Program) are the health care safety net for millions of Americans," said Kathleen Stoll, health policy director of Families USA, a liberal-leaning health care policy group.

"Had it not been for these programs, the number of uninsured would have increased even more in each of the past several years," Stoll said.