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ALAN BERNER / THE SEATTLE TIMES
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Seattle's low-wage workforce is barely getting by

Eunice Martinez sprays down the sandbox for the preschoolers at the YWCA Family Village in Redmond to the delight of the youngsters. A part-time teaching assistant, she used to work there full-time but quit to take what she thought would be a better job, then got laid off.