Document 5: Story of Rocco Corresca, an Italian immigrant, 1902: He la labor bossl gave us very little money, and our clothes were some of those that were found on the street.... So we went away one day to Newark and got work on the street. We paid a man five dollars each for getting us the work and we were with that boss for six months.... When the Newark boss told us that there was no more work Francisco and I talked about what we would do and we went back to Brooklyn to a saloon near Hamilton Ferry, where we got a job cleaning it out and slept in a little room upstairs. There was a bootblack (shoe shiner) named Michael on the corner and when I had time I helped him and learned the business.... Then we thought we would go into (the shoe-shine] business and we got a basement on Hamilton avenue, near the Ferry, and put four chairs in it. We paid $75 for the chairs and all the other things.... We had said that when we saved $1,000 each we would go back to Italy and buy a farm, but now that the time is coming we are so busy and making so much money that we think we will stay. 13 What does the passage suggest about Rocco Corresca's economic situation during his early days in America? Explain your answer.

Document 5: Story of Rocco Corresca, an Italian immigrant, 1902: He la labor bossl gave us very little money, and our clothes were some of those that were found on the street.... So we went away one day to Newark and got work on the street. We paid a man five dollars each for getting us the work and we were with that boss for six months.... When the Newark boss told us that there was no more work Francisco and I talked about what we would do and we went back to Brooklyn to a saloon near Hamilton Ferry, where we got a job cleaning it out and slept in a little room upstairs. There was a bootblack (shoe shiner) named Michael on the corner and when I had time I helped him and learned the business.... Then we thought we would go into (the shoe-shine] business and we got a basement on Hamilton avenue, near the Ferry, and put four chairs in it. We paid $75 for the chairs and all the other things.... We had said that when we saved $1,000 each we would go back to Italy and buy a farm, but now that the time is coming we are so busy and making so much money that we think we will stay. 13 What does the passage suggest about Rocco Corresca's economic situation during his early days in America? Explain your answer.