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Something like that. >> when you first came to america, is this the kind of work you expected? >> well i decided to come here, i was thinking about some better job. maybe like 40 hour work week. make some money for living. maybe i can have time to go to school. but i don't see any choice here. >> like other poor immigrants he had to seek a menial job at one of these agencies. they have connections all over the country. >> seeing a big map of the united states. >> sending workers to small towns across america. >> so each one of these pieces of white paper represents a different job. >> right, t...

>> from his first job as a bus boy, vincent has worked his way up. now a waiter at another restaurant he has regular hours and earns a little under $30,000 a year. it's progress, but still a far cry from the life he imagined. >> it's been 16 years since you first came to america. you're still working in a restaurant. >> right. >> did you think this would be the case when you first decided to come to america? >> i want to go to school. i want to find a new job. i want to find a good job. i want to have a life. but if i work in a restaurant, it's not going to happen. >> this kind of work can fee...

Kitchen helper. general helper. bus boy. the job is still available. to decide whether they will hire me or not. >> signing all these 318, 724, wow. with few other options and deeply in debt from the journey here vincent took a job on one of those post-it notes. >> the best i can find is a bus boy job. i had to work 12 hours a day. i got one day off. and i did earn some money but it's not enough. >> it's been 16 years since vincent first got here and today he's still trying to dig himself out. every morning he catches a train from brooklyn to chinatown.

Our country's oldest chinatowns. and it's here that many chinese immigrants begin their journey. china may be booming, but there are a growing number of poor workers at the bottom who believe they will have a better shot in america. just below the manhattan bridge, there's a row of cramped store fronts. employment agencies where newly arrived workers seek their first job. men like vincent chou. i've spent a lot of time in new york chinatown and i've never noticed all these employment agencies until today. but there's so many of them. what do they do? >> that's how we find a job, especially new...

Over and over again probably since i was 15 is wait tables, bus boy. i always lived on tips. you knew if you worked hard and you gave great service you have an excellent chance to earn extra money. that's fundamental capitalism especially when you break into the work force. for 1800 employees who belong to the union scare hospitality group, they are going to live a life without the ability to get tips. >> danny myer will start removing tipping from restaurants. >> good. >> they serve 50,000 meals a week. >> they're going to build the tip-in. >> they'll say it will pump up to compete with the m...