Our local day labor center has more day laborers outside in the streets than in the centerwhy is this?
The problem may be the center itself. Not all of these operations are the same. Social Service Agency Model approaches have not greatly decreased the number of day laborers on the streets. Some cities have discovered that their ill-conceived centers have actually made their problems worse. Centers that have a very low level of employment usually have large numbers of day laborers still in the streetday laborers will quickly give up on a day labor program and return to the street if they think that they will not be able to get jobs at the center. Centers that average a daily employment rate of at least 80% throughout the year have very few day laborers outside the hiring center. We have found that despite the varying economy, both local and national, an 80% average employment rate can be maintained. Poorly run programs often blame the economy for the low rate of employment, and blame the day laborers themselves for choosing to stay in the streets instead of the center.
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