To support his ailing wife and earn a paycheck, a 61-year-old Iowa man sometimes walks 35 miles to his job as an overnight janitor. Steve Simoff told the Des Moines Register that he leaves his basement apartment in a small town by the Missouri border by 3:30 p.m. to get to the Lakeside Hotel and Casino in Osceola where he works for $9.07 per hour; his shift starts at 11 p.m. His wife suffered a stroke nine years ago and some days there just isn’t enough money to put gas in the couple’s 2002 minivan. Moving closer to his job would likely mean paying more than he now does in monthly rent — $400 — he told The Register.
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We wonder what the Internet holds for Simoff.
