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[NYT] The Price of Nice Nails

May 7, 2015

Manicurists are routinely underpaid and exploited, and endure ethnic bias and other abuse, The New York Times has found.

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(www.nytimes.com article screen capture — Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times)

The women begin to arrive just before 8 a.m., every day and without fail, until there are thickets of young Asian and Hispanic women on nearly every street corner along the main roads of Flushing, Queens.

As if on cue, cavalcades of battered Ford Econoline vans grumble to the curbs, and the women jump in. It is the start of another workday for legions of New York City’s manicurists, who are hurtled to nail salons across three states. They will not return until late at night, after working 10- to 12-hour shifts, hunched over fingers and toes.

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