Posted on 09/06/2014 8:59:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sitting at her street vending booth with products arrayed neatly on a sequined purple tablecloth, Jackie Lloyd reflects nostalgically on the days when she had a steady salary and regular hours..
That was four years ago, before the 39-year-old was laid off from her job as an elementary school cafeteria worker and mounting bills forced her to venture into self-employment.
Now the Pico-Union resident hops from location to location, selling body oils, shea butter, soap and incense. She moves when nearby businesses complain or she feels unsafe.
Some days, her sales bring in $150. Others, they don't break $20....
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I'm sure they had to search plenty hard. And she's more of a lemonade stand entrepreneur than a street vendor. She needs wheels on that rig.
It’s getting so that they are selling the same bag of oranges to each other.
Lloyd has been totally screwed. Abandoned by a union that wants to replace Americans with illegal foreign nationals. The businesses telling her she is overqualified are saying “you are not Hispanic”.
Have no fear Jackie millions of more foreign nationals are coming to take all of our jobs.
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