Rosey Lee Josie makes $10.65 an hour cooking large vats of macaroni to be sold in supermarkets. She's worked at the same factory in Cleveland, Ohio for a decade. The pay frustrates her sometimes. But not enough to put her down. When CNNMoney asks if she's lived the American Dream, she doesn't hesitate to say a resounding YES. "Most of my dreams have come true," says Josie, a grandma in her 60s, with a black belt in karate. She moved to Cleveland from Georgia in 1969 to escape the Jim Crow south and has worked ever since, mostly in food prep.
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