Guatemala sends more migrants to the U.S. than anywhere in Central America. What is driving so many people to leave?
Posted inImmigration
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Category: Inequality
Posted inLabor
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Minor league pay
The baseball industry created an entire workforce exempt from being paid minimum wage and overtime – and players aren’t the only ones crying foul.
Posted inAll Work. No Pay.
Rehab work camps appear to violate federal law, senators say
Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Tammy Baldwin ask the Government Accountability Office to investigate, citing Reveal’s project on unpaid work at rehabs.
Posted inVoting
Inside the vote count chaos in Detroit
Election volunteer Candice Fortman describes rising tensions in a ballot counting room as voters delivered Michigan to Joe Biden.
Posted inEnvironment, Voting
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The American divide
Reveal host Al Letson talks to a first-time voter, whose struggles reflect the divisions this country faces after a historic election.
Posted inImmigration, The Disappeared
US detained migrant children for far longer than previously known
Newly obtained data show that the U.S. government has detained more than 25,000 migrant children for longer than 100 days over the past six years.
Posted inVoting
John Johnson isn’t dead: How claims of voter fraud in Florida fell apart
The Public Interest Legal Foundation, a conservative nonprofit, has a long history of claiming voter fraud but getting its facts wrong.
Posted inImmigration, The Disappeared
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An adolescence, seized
A 10-year-old Honduran girl came to the United States seeking asylum. Instead, she was detained – away from her family – for nearly seven years.
Posted inHuman Rights
An American journalist was murdered in Turkey. Why didn’t the US investigate?
Turkish authorities say Halla and Orouba Barakat were killed in a family dispute. Others suspect a targeted assassination.
Posted inVoting
A warning from Wisconsin
Tens of thousands of mail-in ballots were rejected on technicalities in a pandemic primary in a key swing state.