Joe Yerardi

Economists estimate wage theft costs workers more than $15 billion a year. Journalists at the Center for Public Integrity spent a year investigating how widespread the practice is and how effectively the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division combats this systemic problem. Now we’re makin…

Some economists say wage theft is so pervasive that it’s costing workers at least $15 billion a year — far more than the amount stolen in robberies.

Public Integrity found that more than 900 companies took COVID-19 aid while at least 90,000 workers were laid off or furloughed.

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As workplace deaths and catastrophes mount, the Trump administration has scaled back safety inspections. Since the pandemic, OSHA has cut back even more.

PARADOX, Colo. — The sound of metal banging against metal broke the calm on the high mesa separating Colorado’s Paradox and Big Gypsum valleys. An old rusted headframe marked the entrance to an abandoned uranium mine that, from a distance, looked as if its workers were simply off on a lunch break. Jennifer Thurston, a […]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In New Mexico’s Statehouse, Jimmie Hall is something of a fixture: The veteran Republican representative has served District 28 in this sun-dried, high-desert city for seven terms. This story also appeared in USA TODAY For much of Hall’s tenure, the district, which lies along the foothills of the Sandia Mountains on the […]

Eight months pregnant, the drug sales representative wore a wire for the FBI around her bulging belly as she recorded conversations with colleagues at a conference in Chicago. Her code name? Pampers. This story also appeared in NPR Her company, drugmaker Warner Chilcott, was using payments and perks to get doctors to prescribe its drugs. […]