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Migrant labor: picking crops, bussing dishes, .....

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/us/arizona-teachers-philippines.html



"The latest wave of foreign workers sweeping into American jobs brought Donato Soberano from the Philippines to Arizona two years ago. He had to pay thousands of dollars to a job broker and lived for a time in an apartment with five other Filipino workers. The lure is the pay — 10 times more than what he made doing the same work back home.

But Mr. Soberano is not a hospitality worker or a home health aide. He is in another line of work that increasingly pays too little to attract enough Americans: Mr. Soberano is a public school teacher......."
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My mother was a school teacher in the public school system.  From all of the belly aching going on regarding teacher pay, I think she may have been the only teacher in the world who knew how much money she was going to make.  She didn't choose "teaching" in order to get rich.  At the same time, she managed to raise 2 kids and purchase a home on a teachers salary.  I'm sorry that I am not more empathetic.
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