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Nicolás Merino González, a farmworker in Greenfield, Calif, wears a gray hoodie and blue jeans as he stares at the camera.

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.

Workers wearing red shirts and surgical face masks hold protest signs outside the VA.

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.

Larger than life size cutout billboards portray farm workers standing at the edge of a farm field.

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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?

Nancy Pelosi, wearing a blue suit, sits at a table signing a bill. A sign reading "families first" is on the table. A group of officials surrounding her applauds.

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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.

Donald Trump sits at his desk in the oval office, with a bill in front of him. He is flanked by an array of advisors, who are all older white men wearing blue suits.

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‘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.

A cardboard sign says "stay at home" outside a house

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Quarantine nation

by Kevin Sullivan, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs, Mwende Hinojosa, Amy Mostafa, Najib Aminy, Al Letson, Will Carless, Will Evans, Taki Telonidis, Elizabeth Shogren, Jennifer Gollan, Brett Myers, Lance Williams and Katharine Mieszkowski March 28, 2020July 1, 2021

Quarantines are supposed to contain the new coronavirus, but are the right people going into isolation, and are federal guidelines strong enough?

Governor Jerry Brown looking concerned and speaking at a podium.

Accountability, COVID-19

California created a massive medical reserve – with acute care beds, ventilators and N95 masks — then let it collapse

by Lance Williams, Will Evans and Will Carless March 27, 2020June 30, 2021

Mobile acute care hospitals, ventilators and N95 respirators were stocked, but state leaders refused to allocate funds to maintain them.

A medical worker walks past a line of workers and visitors

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Trump says he’s protecting veterans. VA workers say they’re forced to work without safety precautions.

by Aaron Glantz March 23, 2020June 30, 2021

Department of Veterans Affairs health workers exposed to COVID-19 are being forced to come to work without being tested for the virus, so long as they are not showing symptoms.

Grand Central Terminal is nearly empty during the morning rush hour in New York.

Accountability, COVID-19

Is 14 days enough?

by Jennifer Gollan and Elizabeth Shogren March 23, 2020June 30, 2021

New studies show that the debate over how long the new coronavirus incubates – and how long it sheds after recovery – is far from settled.

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