As a high school social worker in Oakland, California, Alvarez was frustrated by the number of boys of color he saw dropping out of school or falling into the criminal justice system.
She was a kitchen worker for a school district that was offering early-retirement packages.
It's the Native American-owned small business that's opening its doors, or a worker helping a school renovate.
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Jukka Forsberg, a maintenance worker at the school, told YLE that the gunman was wearing a ski mask and walked into the building with a large bag.
"It's such a big place, anything could happen, " said Liu Wenbing, a 19-year-old worker who left school when he was 13 to take up jobs fixing cars around the country.
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They range in age from early 20s to 70s and include a Wal-Mart worker, a high school teacher, a retired school bus driver and a student in his junior year at Penn State who has ties to the football team and knows some witnesses in the case.
Despite a nationwide appeal, a growing campaign online for information by Mr Vaughan and intense searches by police and family and friends there have been no sightings of the Unilever worker and former Cwmcarn High School pupil.
If the laid off auto worker in Detroit, or the high school student in Little Rock, or the former textile marketer in Greensboro, N.
His father describes Walter Jr. as a hard worker who started at quarterback in high school one season, more out of grit than athletic ability.
They just grabbed whomever they could waiters, a construction worker, a dance teacher in a primary school.
Ricky looked half a decade younger than his 14 years, and a fellow aid worker explained that he was malnourished and often missed school because he was too hungry to go.
The 49-year-old mother, a laundry worker, had denied failing to send her daughter to school without reasonable excuse.
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That day, as always, I walked into the clinic after school to begin my shift, only to have a co-worker tell me I was to go immediately to talk with the office manager.
When doctors occupy a service niche like the chambermaid in Las Vegas or the school teacher in Chicago, the expectations and compensation of the physician-worker will be defined in ways that may make the benefits of collective bargaining appear very attractive.
In February, Erica Nigrelli was teaching at a high school in Missouri City, Texas, when she walked into a co-worker's classroom.
Another worker, who would identify himself only as Mr. Xiao, started as an assembly-line worker almost three years ago, just after graduating from a technical school in central China, where Hon Hai recruited him.
There, Jal met British aid worker Emma McCune, who adopted him and arranged for him to attend school in Nairobi.
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Local governments and school districts blame programs and costs required by Albany, often won by politically powerful public worker unions, for many of them facing insolvency.
Here you have a worker who wants to work 80 hours a week to help his brother attend school, but instead is playing online video games.
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The man, a 62-year-old former postal worker named Joseph Del Priore, was accused of taking hundreds of pictures of female high school athletes and cheerleaders and younger children during at events in three New Jersey counties.
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Teachers update and add new material to the website during school holidays and get just seven weeks off each year, roughly the same as the average Swedish office worker.
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