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Matt Black
Freelance

"Rural California's New Hard Times"


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Third Place
Matt Black
Freelance


"Rural California's New Hard Times"

As unemployment in California reaches a 70-year high, it is the mostly Latino and working-class communities in the rural Central Valley that suffer the most: unemployment is triple the state average. "California catches a cold, and we come down with pneumonia," said Fresno County representative Juan Arambula. Residents of Taco Flat get down to pennies as they count their money on an old folding chair.

 

 

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