Source: WUNC, 8/11/20


On the first day of April, when confirmed cases of COVID-19 had barely broken 1,500 in North Carolina, Marisela Martínez started a housekeeping job through a subcontractor at the Mountaire Farms poultry plant in Siler City. The sole income-earner of her household, Martínez said she lost a construction job she had held for years due to the pandemic. Ineligible for unemployment benefits, she turned to a reliable, but high-risk source of income for Mexican immigrants like herself.

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