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The owner of Z Pizza says she’s being forced to close her doors, because she can’t afford the higher labor costs. ... Ritu Shah Burnham doesn’t want to go out of business, but says she can’t afford the city’s mandated wage hikes. ... Shah Burnham is concerned about where her employees will end up when she does close. “I absolutely am terrified for them. I have no idea where they’re going to find jobs, because if I’m cutting hours, I imagine everyone is across the board.”

1. FARMINGVILLE In some ways, it's a familiar American story: an influx of illegal immigrants crossing the border from Mexico to do work the locals won't; a flourishing "low-wage" labor market that depends on them; rising tensions with the resident Anglo population; charges and counter-charges of lawlessness and racism; organizing and counter-organizing — then a violent hate crime that tears a community apart. But this isn't the story of a California, Texas or other Southwestern town. It's the story of Farmingville, New York, on Long Island. http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2004/farmingville/about.html 2. LIFE AND DEBT Life and Debt is a just-completed feature-length documentary which...