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ARIZONA, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – The kids ran circles around the old brick chimney, yelling “You’re it,” at one another until they tired and headed back to the front porch of the crumbling mansion—but if the children had known the truth about the chimney in the middle of that Claiborne Parish field, would they have used…
The arcade chain Dave & Buster’s agreed to pay more than a quarter of a million dollars to resolve allegations that include violation of child labor laws, Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell announced Thursday. Campbell shared the news amid a push from her office to raise awareness about legal protections for young people from…
WASHINGTON, DC (June 5, 2023) – Greenpeace USA, Global Labor Justice – International Labor Rights Forum (GLJ-ILRF), and allies in the Seafood Working Group (SWG) today announced their findings of labor rights violations, forced labor, and human trafficking of migrant workers in Thailand and Taiwan and called on the U.S. Department of State to downgrade…
Editor’s Note: This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting and was originally published by Investigate Midwest. In early 2019 in Illinois, a farmworker, his wife and his son lived in a moldy house. Attempting to keep the winter cold at bay, he’d spray-foamed the windows shut. The toilet often malfunctioned. Unlike most farmworker housing,…
1. Introduction The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) was introduced in 2000, defining sex and labor trafficking and creating criminal statutes to facilitate investigations, prosecutions, and provide victim services in the United States [1]. Despite the TVPA, most local law enforcement agencies required years to begin investigating street level prostitution and residential brothels as potential…
Roberto Jacobo is an immigrant who estimates he lost $90,000 in income over 15 years as a home remodeler because his employers did not pay him his owed overtime or prevailing wage on jobs. For years he stayed quiet, afraid his employers would retaliate because he is an immigrant. Then he decided enough is enough…
Roberto Jacobo is an immigrant who estimates he lost $90,000 in income over 15 years as a home remodeler because his employers did not pay him his owed overtime or prevailing wage on jobs. For years he stayed quiet, afraid his employers would retaliate because he is an immigrant. Then he decided enough is enough…
In 2006, Saket Soni worked as a labor organizer in New Orleans. One day, he received a disturbing phone call late at night; The man on the other end was desperate for his help. The caller, an Indian migrant worker, told Soni that he had been lured to the U.S. by a company called Signal…
Remember how we all laughed at Newt Gingrich and mocked him back in 2011 when he suggested maybe schools could save money by hiring children to do the janitorial work and haha, did that idiot think it was 1890 or something? But of course, since the Reagan years, Republicans and business have been doing everything…
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Jasmine Myers’ trafficker was a family member, who repeatedly sold her to adult men for sex from the time she was 5 until she was removed from her home at age 17. Taylor Venezuela met her trafficker through a false modeling job, where he lured her into pornography when she was 19….
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