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ThomCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-31-11 12:02 PM
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11. Florida is well known for it's migrant worker jobs in citrus groves
and strawberry fields. These jobs don't even have ANY pay rate per hour. You only get paid PER POUND, and it is heavy back-breaking labor.

That is exactly the type of job someone would off everyone on a list of people with expiring unemployment benefits if they wanted to pull off something like this.

Even experienced migrant workers who are skilled at maximizing the number of pounds they harvest per day rarely end up making even minimum wage. The pound rate is always deliberately set low enough to make sure of that.
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