In "Poverty aWork: Office Work and the Crack Alternative," Bourgois claims thaonly 15 percenosecond generation Puerto Ricans living in New York's Spanish Harlem have ever held a job in the formal economy.

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Bourgois does discuss employment challenges in Spanish Harlem, but the specific claim that only 15% of second-generation Puerto Ricans have held a formal job is not accurate.

In "Poverty AWork: Office Work and the Crack Alternative," Bourgois