Champaign County no stranger to economic disparity and despair
By Shelley Smithson and Pam G. Dempsey
Sunday July 12, 2009
Robin Scholz
Kelly Gaddis, left, and his wife, also named Kelly, sit in their home Tuesday, a room at the Courtesy Motel in Urbana.
After a day of wiping tables and sweeping french fries off the floor of McDonald's, Kelly Gaddis limps home to the Courtesy Motel on North Vine Street in Urbana.
Gaddis, 53, cannot afford to buy a car or lease an apartment on the $8 an hour he earns as a lobby attendant at McDonald's. He and his wife, who also works at the restaurant, rent a motel room by the week within walking distance of work.
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