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Living Wage: Profile of a low-wage earner

D'Wana Stewart
D'Wana Stewart of San Francisco

D’Wana Stewart is a native San Franciscan. She graduated from June Jordan School for Equity, a small high school on the southeast side of the city. Now 24, she's working three jobs and shares a home with her mother – it’s the only way she’s been able to stay in San Francisco. We spent a week with D’wana, to get a sense of her life, living on the minimum wage.

"Definitely like to be further ahead in my life. Even though it seems like I’m doing so much." – D'wana Stewart

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This piece first aired September 1, 2014.

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