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The cost of COVID-19

by Aaron Glantz, Jonathan Jones, Katharine Mieszkowski, Najib Aminy, Emily Harris, Brett Myers, Jen Chien, Esther Kaplan, Kevin Sullivan, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs, Amy Mostafa, Al Letson and Mwende Hinojosa April 18, 2020July 1, 2021

Can the biggest U.S. stimulus stave off home foreclosures, save businesses and prevent the worst economic crash since the Great Depression?

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COVID-19, Returning Home to Battle

VA hospitals are rationing protective gear, emails show. Congress wants to know why.

by Aaron Glantz April 16, 2020June 30, 2021

The chairman of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs and seven colleagues have written to Vice President Mike Pence asking for answers.

Dozens of grocery store workers have died. Here’s what workers say their employers did wrong.

by Will Carless and Patrick Michels April 15, 2020June 30, 2021

Policies incentivized sick and vulnerable workers to report for duty. Masks and gloves were forbidden. Confusion reigned within chains.

COVID-19, Kids on the Line

Detained and exposed

by Sarah Mirk, Kevin Sullivan, Al Letson, Najib Aminy, Amy Mostafa, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Mwende Hinojosa, Laura C. Morel, Aura Bogado, Emily Harris, Stan Alcorn, Priska Neely, Katharine Mieszkowski, Brett Myers, Taki Telonidis, Jen Chien and Andy Donohue April 11, 2020July 1, 2021

Social distancing and hand-washing are meant to keep us safe from the coronavirus. But in immigrant detention centers, those measures are impossible.

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Accountability, COVID-19

Farmworkers are now deemed essential. But are they protected?

by Monica Campbell, The World April 9, 2020June 30, 2021

Compelled to keep working, many farmworkers lack masks, sanitizer and paid sick leave – and are blocked from accessing federal aid.

COVID-19, Returning Home to Battle

3 VA health workers have died of COVID-19. 776 have tested positive.

by Aaron Glantz April 7, 2020June 30, 2021

The casualties come in the wake of reporting that staff were short of protective masks and gloves and were required to report to work sick.

Essential workers

by Sarah Mirk, Kevin Sullivan, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs, Amy Mostafa, Najib Aminy, Al Letson, Mwende Hinojosa, Will Carless, Patrick Michels, Melissa Lewis, Hannah Young, Anayansi Diaz-Cortes, Michael I Schiller, Emily Schwing, Brett Myers, Jen Chien, Taki Telonidis, Sumi Aggarwal, Byard Duncan, Andy Donohue, Narda Zacchino, Esther Kaplan and Soo Oh April 4, 2020July 1, 2021

Farmworkers, grocery store clerks and airline employees are on the front lines of the coronavirus crisis. But what’s being done to protect them?

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How OSHA has failed to protect America’s workers from COVID-19

by Emily Schwing April 4, 2020June 30, 2021

Efforts to create a federal rule to protect workers from infectious diseases have dragged on for decades.

Accountability, COVID-19

Tesla workers say company risked lives by sending them to work in shutdown

by Will Evans March 31, 2020March 31, 2020

“It’s pretty shady,” said one worker who was called in to fix paint on new cars.

‘I’ll be the oversight,’ Trump says as his political appointees protect Wall Street, real estate

by Aaron Glantz March 30, 2020June 30, 2021

As families and small businesses wait for a share of the $2 trillion stimulus, banks, real estate investors and lenders have already been bailed out.