“You can dedicate your life to trying to make a difference,” says R. Brent Decker of Racetraitor and Cure Violence Global. “You don't have to just get old, get a job, and watch the game.”
For the last two decades, Brisa Chavez, of Cicero, Illinois, has found work through staffing agencies. Like many immigrants, the single mother has been able to find work through temp agencies because they require less paperwork and less schooling than being hired by a company directly, she said. “Unfortunately, we are also more at risk of suffering abuse in the workplace,” she said. Chavez .