Yusef Davis

Age: 22

Previous employment: Forklift operator

Davis will take any sort of work, from cook to concrete layer. He lost his $11-an-hour job at a retail warehouse in August. "Before, it was hard to find a job," he says. Now it's worse. Wife Tandra (holding baby Laila) just got them health insurance through her hospital job.

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