Joe immigrated to the United States from Malaysia when he was 21 years old and has been living in New York City for over 30 years. When he first started working in New York City, he made two dollars an hour:
[I worked] as a baker. My cousin helped me find a job because he was a baker, too, making, I believe, less than two dollars an hour at that time. I don’t remember exactly. But it was pretty… the buying power for two dollars over there is better than $7.25 now. I can tell you that.”
