A New York City panel is examining whether the city should subsidize job centers for day laborers to link this overwhelmingly immigrant work force to prospective employers and curb wage and workplace abuses. The job centers would bring a measure of regulation to an informal economy that involves throngs of immigrants gathering on curbsides and in parking lots each morning waiting to be hired for work.
See "City to Consider Job Centers for Day Labor", Sewell Chan, The New York Times, June 15, 2006