Few workers rose through the ranks to supervisory positions, and even fewer could achieve the artisan's dream of setting up one's own business.

很少有工人能僭越等级升到管理层岗位，甚至基本没有人能够实现自己身为工匠时的梦想。

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For years, the city offered a so-called "Las Vegas dream" where housekeepers or kitchen workers could buy their own homes, afford annual holidays and send their children to college.

多年来，赌城为大众提供了一个所谓的“拉斯·韦加斯之梦”，在这里，客房服务员或厨房工作人员可以买到属于自己的房子、可以享受得起年假以及送孩子上大学。

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The women workers of the industrial zones don’t just dream about “imaginary meals”.

工业区女工们的梦想不仅仅局限于“想象中的大餐”。

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Finally, conservatives should consider comprehensive immigration reform that would allow skilled and unskilled workers to seek their American dream while granting parole, not amnesty, to those hard-working migrants now here illegally.

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They hired workers to join them in making this dream a reality.

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While there are certainly highly-skilled and in-demand professionals who are able to parlay their hired-gun status into big paydays or renaissance workers who are mashing up day jobs and dream jobs, those who benefit financially from the gig economy are in the minority.

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