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Matt Black
Freelance

"Rural California's New Hard Times"


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Third Place
Matt Black
Freelance


"Rural California's New Hard Times"

Eduardo De La Rosa inside the shanty he built of scavenged plywood, cardboard boxes and scrap lumber in Taco Flat. In the past seven months he worked just one full day, picking crops, for a wage of $25. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has asked President Obama to declare the Central Valley an "Economic Disaster Area," an application that is still pending.

 

 

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