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NEW ORLEANS - Anisha Washington draws her neatly starched uniform from a dingy bureau in the crowded shotgun house she shares in a hurricane-crippled neighborhood.
Her $10-per-hour pay as a French Quarter security guard seems an improvement over the $7.50 she earned before Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005.See the full content of this document
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Working Class Struggling in New Orleans
But inflated wages in a storm-reduced labor force are overshadowed by the harsh math of life: Rent has shot up 46 percent, utility rates have risen 33 percent and 15 of...
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