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Archive Home > 2008 > May > 13 > The long wait for work

The long wait for work

Jobs harder to find for Central Oregon day laborers

By Patrick Cliff / The Bulletin
May 13, 2008

About 20 people, mostly men, sat Wednesday in the Labor Ready waiting area, staring in the general direction of a television, hoping to get day jobs.

But unlike a year ago, many of them wouldn’t find work.

Anon Walters, the branch manager, sent out a few dozen workers. Walters said he....

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