Graduation parties, medical appointments, playing outside are all too risky. “I’m scared to death to leave my house.”
While state coffers overflow, some California families must make hard choices about how they survive.
David Bacon spent three decades capturing the experiences of laborers, their treatment and where they came from.
California looks to ease the strain put on its vulnerable undocumented workforce.
Agricultural workers in New York just formed the state’s first farmworker union, but a new law guaranteeing overtime protections and organizing rights for the first time has been delayed.
The California Immigrant Policy Center’s Sarah Dar makes the case for universal health care.
The influx of migrant agricultural workers brought to the U.S. on temporary visas means increased competition for resident laborers – and less bargaining power.
Many migrant workers in California on H-2A temporary agricultural visas are forced to contend with unsafe working conditions, wage theft and other labor law violations.
Nail-care salons are an $8.5 billion industry that is booming in America, but one that is also replete with an often-exploited immigrant work force, low wages, dangerous chemicals and difficult patrons. Change, though, is gradually coming.