They work as bus monitors, clerks, secretaries and instructional assistants in classrooms for the Louisville school district.
Pay is so low that some workers have been qualifying for welfare benefits.
Others began seeing their wages go primarily to pay for health care, with not much left for anything else. At first I thought, 'Oh, no. I didn't think I was going to like it. But when we got out there, people were very receptive. When they found out who we were, they invited us right into their house and took us to their kitchen table.