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Immigration

Inside the Lives of Immigrant Teens Working Dangerous Night Shifts in Suburban Factories

By Melissa Sanchez (ProPublica) | November 29, 2020

During the day, immigrant teenagers attend high school. At night, they work in factories to pay debts to smugglers and send money to family. The authorities aren’t surprised by child labor. They’re also not doing much about it.

Aviation Cleaner
Government

The Trump Administration Allowed Aviation Companies to Take Bailout Funds and Lay Off Workers, Says House Report

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Poorly Protected Postal Workers Are Catching COVID-19 by the Thousands. It’s One More Threat to Voting by Mail.

Government

“Cover Up”: House Democrats Subpoena Documents That NLRB Refused to Share in Ethics Investigation

Sexual Harassment Protest
Investigative

Temp Workers Fight Back Against Alleged Sexual Harassment and Say They Face Retaliation for Doing So

COVID-19

Meatpacking Companies Dismissed Years of Warnings but Now Say Nobody Could Have Prepared for COVID-19

By Michael Grabell (Pro Publica) and Bernice Yeung (ProPublica) | August 20, 2020

In documents dating to 2006, government officials predicted that a pandemic would threaten critical businesses and warned them to prepare. Meatpacking companies largely ignored them, and now nearly every one of the predictions has come true.

Investigative
Happy Hollow Farm

While Covid-19 Upends Supply Chains, Farms That Sell Locally Thrive

By Marissa Plescia | August 10, 2020

“That is the gift of the local system, that it’s so much more resilient than the big industrial system,” said Margot McMillen, a small-scale organic vegetable and beef farmer in Missouri.

COVID-19
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Nobody Accurately Tracks Health Care Workers Lost to COVID-19. So She Stays Up At Night Cataloging the Dead

By Nina Martin (ProPublica) | August 3, 2020

Anesthesiologist Claire Rezba started tracking lost health workers almost instinctively. Researchers and industry professionals say the lack of good official data on these deaths is “scandalous” and is putting lives in danger.

Investigative
Family of Laid Off Airport Employee

How the Trump Administration Allowed Aviation Companies to Keep Relief Money That Was Supposed to Go to Workers

By Jeff Ernsthausen and Justin Elliott | July 30, 2020

One of the most generous programs of the bailout was meant to help airline industry companies keep their workers on the payroll. Some laid workers off first and then got the money anyway.

COVID-19
Gate Gourmet Loading

The Airline Bailout Loophole: Companies Laid Off Workers, Then Got Money Meant to Prevent Layoffs

By Jeff Ernsthausen and Justin Elliott | July 8, 2020

Three companies including Gate Gourmet, a global provider of airline meals, received $338 million in relief money for workers — and laid workers off anyway.

COVID-19
Nike Facility

Nike Turned Away a Public Health Official From Its Warehouse Days After a Worker With COVID-19 Died

By Wendi C. Thomas (MLK50: Justice Through Journalism) | May 26, 2020

The Health Department received a complaint that a Nike warehouse wasn’t being cleaned thoroughly or allowing for social distancing. Its inspector wasn’t allowed inside. Twenty-one workers have tested positive for COVID-19 at Nike’s Memphis locations.

Investigative
Sears Imagery

Nearing Bankruptcy, Sears Claimed Fast-Food Workers and Baristas as Employees to Keep Tax Breaks

By David Bernstein (The Daily Herald) | May 19, 2020

Politicians who helped draft Sears’ tax deals said they were designed to retain thousands of corporate jobs. Contractors, landscapers and temporary employees who worked in Sears’ buildings were never meant to help the company qualify for tax breaks.

COVID-19
COVID Stimulus Watch

New Website Documents Accountability Track Records of CARES Act Recipients

By Filiberto Nolasco Gomez | May 7, 2020

The data collected shows that at least 16 of those corporations pay their workers less than the national median household income level. Five pay wages so low they fall below the poverty line for a family of four.

COVID-19
Donald Trump

The Trump Administration Has Put Federal Workers at Coronavirus Risk, Senators Say

By Maryam Jameel (Pro Publica) | April 30, 2020

Citing ProPublica’s reporting, 22 Senate Democrats have asked the White House to explain its management of federal employee safety.

COVID-19
ER Health Care Workers

A Major Medical Staffing Company Just Slashed Benefits for Doctors and Nurses Fighting Coronavirus

By Isaac Arnsdorf (ProPublica) | April 1, 2020

Alteon Health, a staffing company backed by private-equity firm Frazier Healthcare Partners, will cut salaries, time off and retirement benefits for providers, citing lost revenue. Several hospital operators announced similar cuts.

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