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© 2011 Erika J. Schultz/ The Seattle Times

Jack, 9, rests on a mattress after living in a tent with his mother for about a month in Seattle. Although money is tight, and obstacles are around every turn, their family tries to keep optimistic. They have each other, Jack’s active imagination and hope of a better life in a new city. Seasonal coffee workers unload baskets of coffee cherries at the end of the day at Santa Eduviges farm in Costa Rica. Workers use plastic buckets, called cajuelas, to collect the coffee cherries. While picking, they tie the buckets to their waist, a practice that has not changed in more than 100 years. Friends dance at the Valmaceda family’s house for their daughter’s 23rd birthday party in Trinidad, Cuba. The girls danced for hours to the deep, pulsating, urban beat of reggaeton. Ranito Simbagoye weeds his community’s corn crop in Kent, Wash. The local Burundian refugees received a startup grant to launch a small urban farm, with the hopes of maintaining a self-sufficient business, instead of remaining in a cycle of entry-level jobs.