‘We shall see’: Plasma donation center hailed as sign of ‘revitalization’ remains but a lifeline for residents with few job prospects

The man in a Dallas Cowboys baseball hat would rather be home sleeping, but instead he was sitting in a car in the parking lot of the plasma donation center, eating Cheetos and waiting on his brother and friend inside.

His family members regularly give their plasma – the liquid component of blood used in a variety of medical applications – for extra cash, but he said he never will.

“That’s not too much my style,” he said just before 10 a.m. Tuesday, wiping the sweat from his face with a gray washcloth. “I just like to go to work and go back home.”…

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