Boston Globe: A fight for one good job

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007/08/24/a_fight_for_one_good_job/

Adrian Walker
A fight for one good job

By Adrian Walker, Globe Columnist | August 24, 2007

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.

When asked if she had found it, she hesistated before saying yes.

FULL story at link.