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Day laborers set up ‘Hooverville’
Published Aug 16, 2005 8:40 PM
Day laborers evicted from yet another house in Farmingville, Long Island, in New York, have set up a campsite in the backyard. As of mid–August, the town has closed seven day laborers' homes. Officials say they plan to close 117 more. The workers set up a campsite similar to the "Hoovervilles" that homeless people created during the capitalist depression of the 1930s. The town now plans to prosecute the day laborers for “illegal camping.’
--Photo and story by Heather Cottin
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