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Erna Calingasan: The struggle to get by on low pay

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Projects & Initiatives: Economic Security Project (BC)

Erna Calingasan talks about the struggle to get by working two low-wage jobs. Part of a video series by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives about poverty in British Columbia, Canada.

Video by Goh Iromoto.

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