A campaign for fair pay and safe working conditions reveals how being classified “independent contractors” denies workers fundamental protections.
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What began as a single radio documentary has grown dramatically, and helped change the face, and voice, of American journalism. Now it has a new home.
In the current unprecedented climate, nonprofits led by people of color have become the vanguard of crisis response in their communities. Yet even as they perform urgent new work, many face profound challenges to their long-term financial stability.
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Our colleagues tell us what they’ve been reading during the powerful, disturbing days we’ve all just been through.
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The sectors of the city's economy hardest hit by the Covid-19 contraction rely heavily on immigrant workers Nearly 200,000 undocumented workers have lost jobs, and they've been left out of many unemployment relief measures.
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The CARES Act will help overcome glaring gaps. But workers and small businesses may not receive aid in a timely fashion. And assistance to immigrants, those without health insurance, and many low-income families will be severely limited.
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The Covid-19 outbreak and the massive economic dislocations it has induced have brought renewed attention to the lack of benefits, including employment-based health insurance coverage, typically experienced by workers classified as independent contractors.
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