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RSS FeedsFar from fame, poverty blossoms in `forgotten California´
(WorldNews Health)

 
 

19 october 2018 18:56:38

 
Far from fame, poverty blossoms in `forgotten California´
(WorldNews Health)
 


By BRIAN MELLEY HURON, Calif. (AP) - A rooster signals the start of the day as workers wearing sombreros emerge from the shadows and shuffle past boarded-up businesses in this tiny farm town. They converge on a dimly lit dirt lot outside Panaderia de Dios, a bakery sweetening the air with the aroma of Mexican cookies and bread as workers catch rides to the fields. Little else is sweet in Huron, where jobs not displaced by automation in farming are mostly done by hand, and residents struggle to scrape by. `As soon as you make the money, the money goes away,` Martin Castro said before spending the day repeatedly bending in a field to slice cantaloupes from vines. `I don´t like the life.`...


 
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