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Friday, August 24, 2007

Boston Globe's Adrian Walker calls it "A Fight for One Good Job"

"Candida Gomes has three children, and she wishes she spent more time with them.

She gets up at 5:30 to get them off to school. Then she heads for her first job, cleaning the Wrentham State School.

She gets back to her house in Pawtucket around 5 and puts on dinner before she reports to her second job, cleaning an office building in downtown Providence.

By the time she gets back home, her children -- ages 18, 11, and 5 -- are supposed to be asleep,
and usually they are.

Gomes came to the United States from Cape Verde 10 years ago, in search, she says, of a better life."

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