By Mandy McLaren, Louisville Courier-Journal, December 11, 2019
It’s been nearly four years since KiKi Shelton started looking for a steady job.
There were a few stints at the Amazon warehouse in Southern Indiana, but the 90-minute bus ride from her mom’s house in southwest Jefferson County was a nightmare — not nearly worth the pain in her right foot from the miles she walked picking and packing customers' orders.
She lasted a few months running food at an East End steak house. But too many of her co-workers were no-shows. She burned out, continually assigned to cover extra shifts with no days off.
And then there was the four months she spent at a retail store on Louisville’s bustling Bardstown Road. Though the shopkeeper occasionally gifted her merchandise, KiKi was never paid a single dollar.
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