Headline: New York Times, 3/20/2026 (4/6/2026 print ediiton)
Donating is a misnomer. He earns an average of $70 for each visit.
“That can be gas money, grocery money, money put into savings for emergencies,” said Mr. Briseño, who started going to this plasma collection center a year ago after struggling to find a part-time job that didn’t conflict with his work schedule. He needed to do something to offset the increased costs of living.
“In this economy, it’s expensive,” he said, “and donating helps.”
Every day, an estimated 215,000 people donate plasma, the yellowish liquid component of blood. Mr. Briseño is among them. He is not jobless or facing eviction, but, like many in the American middle class, he is caught in the vise of rising expenses and wages that aren’t growing fast enough to cover them. So he is turning to a method more commonly associated with the lowest-income Americans. For people like him, an extra $600 or so a month can mean making a mortgage payment or covering increased health-insurance costs. [emphasis added]
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