SAN DIEGO — She first came to Park Boulevard for the money and the snacks. A friend told her there was a place they could go with free fruit gummies, granola bars, and rice crispy treats — and she could make $20 if she answered some survey questions. It sounded like a dream. GB had been spending her nights crinkling through garbage bags for bottles and cans. Aluminum got $1.66 per pound; to make $20, she had to collect hundreds of empties. As far as she understood, on Park Boulevard, all she had to do was show up. One morning in May, she and her friend walked over from the tent city where they lived.
The place was a research office: sterile, with frosted glass. Sure enough, there was good, strong coffee and a little basket of snacks. She was surprised, though, when the researcher who’d been…
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