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Generations Of Blue Collar Workers Stuck In Minimum Wage

Jerome Campbell |
June 10, 2014 | 1:30 p.m. PDT

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Eric Jones does not want his children to follow in the family business. Jones and his father both worked as handymen to support their families, and neither attended college nor learned a trade. Both Jones men struggled to support their families in small homes in South Los Angeles.

Jones' father worked to support his family until he died at 56. Now Jones fears the same fate. As he approaches his own 56th birthday, Jones reflects the upon the cycle of minimum wage jobs in his family and hopes of a better life for his children. 

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