Hannah Dreier

A reporter’s questions pulled her into the subculture of wildland firefighting. Policy changes followed.

U.S. Wildfire Fighters to Mask Up After Decades-Long Ban on Smoke Protections

He started fighting wildfires as a teenager. After inhaling smoke on the front lines for six seasons, he faced an impossible choice.

The U.S. Forest Service has fought decades of efforts to better protect its crews — sending them into smoke without masks or warnings about the risks.

Perdue Farms and JBS have settled with the Labor Department after relying on migrant children to do dangerous work in their slaughterhouses. Most of the money will be used to help the children.

Many sponsors were inadequately vetted and safety checks went unfulfilled, an independent watchdog found. Children ended up in dangerous jobs across the country.

McDonald’s, Costco and other major brands say they are stepping up efforts to keep minors from the grueling, often dangerous work that goes into their products.

Data shows where a record number of unaccompanied children traveling to the U.S. from Central America and other countries have ended up.

Private auditors have failed to detect migrant children working for U.S. suppliers of Oreos, Gerber baby snacks, McDonald’s milk and many other products.

Federal law bars anyone under 18 from working as a roofer because the job is so dangerous. But across the U.S., migrant children do it anyway.

Migrant children, put to work in one of the nation’s most dangerous jobs, are falling and dying.

The Labor Department has opened inquiries into whether migrant children were working inside slaughterhouses owned by the poultry-processing giants.

For Marcos Cux — and thousands of other migrant children — working dangerous jobs that violate child-labor laws is the only American dream there is.

The agency said it had found thousands of cases where minors were employed in illegal, often dangerous jobs. Congress has accused the health secretary of failing to protect them.

The White House and federal agencies were repeatedly alerted to signs of children at risk. The warnings were ignored or missed.

To investigate the exploitation of migrant children, who often work long hours at factory jobs, the reporter Hannah Dreier waited out the late shift in parking lots.

Members of Congress are pressing for changes to the law and the Biden administration’s approach as federal and state enforcement agencies begin a crackdown on companies that employ underage migrants.

The move came days after a Times investigation showed children were working in dangerous jobs throughout the United States.

Arriving in record numbers, they’re ending up in dangerous jobs that violate child labor laws — including in factories that make products for well-known brands like Cheetos and Fruit of the Loom.

The Trump administration went after gang members — and instead destroyed the American dreams of immigrant teenagers around the country.