As if on cue, cavalcades of battered Ford Econoline vans grumble to the curbs, and the women jump in. It is the start of another workday for legions of New York City’s manicurists, who are hurtled to nail salons across three states. They will not return until late at night, after working 10- to 12-hour shifts, hunched over fingers and toes.
On a morning last May, Jing Ren, a 20-year-old who had recently arrived from China, stood among them for the first time, headed to a job at a salon in a Long Island strip mall. Her hair neat and glasses perpetually askew, she clutched her lunch and a packet of nail tools that manicurists must bring from job to job.
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They can pay low wages because the workers are required by the States to have a license or if not work as an apprentice under some one who does have a license. The state exams are in English so the person taking the exam must have a strong knowledge of the English language to pass it. Some states don't have reciprocity agreements so if you are qualified in one state you might not be in another. The law allows an apprentice to be paid less than min wage so the fault is just as much with the government as the shop owners. As usual the government is just as much part of the problem.
Most of their customers are black women on welfare, that sell their EBT card food for cash.
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