H. Claire Brown
Senior staff writer
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H. Claire Brown is a senior staff writer for The Counter. Her work has also appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, and The Intercept and has won awards from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing, the New York Press Club, the Newswomen's Club of New York, and others. A North Carolina native, she now lives in Brooklyn.
![A Mcdonald's is centered with logo in bright yellow surrounded by reports, logos, numbers, money, and people all on a rough white background April 2022.](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/graphic-mcdonalds-ppp-intercept-April-2022-.jpg)
![McDonald's crew member Samantha Medina prepares french fries as the McDonald's restaurant. April 25, 2017](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/McDonalds-french-fries-being-prepared-March-2022.jpg)
![Silhouette of state of Maine filled with pictures of farms, fishing, and local government 110121.](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/mainecollageclaire.png)
![The JBS meat placing plant is viewed in Plainwell, Michigan on June 2, 2021.](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/JBS-Plainwell-MI-exterior-with-trucks-and-covid-19-safety-signs-102821.jpg)
![U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue (blue/green gingham shirt and tan mask) and Senator John Cornyn blue gingham shirt and blue bandana mask) tour the Houston Food Bank. October 2021](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/farmers-food-boxes-covid-report-october-2021.jpg)
![McDonald's employees protest outside their workplace on April 9, 2021 in Los Angeles, to demand an end to what they consider workplace harassment, discrimination and retaliation, despite numerous attempts to reach a resolution with the franchise owners. September 2021](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/food-industry-workers-quitting-august-2021.jpg)
![Kimbal Musk, brother of Elon Musk, teaches students at Eucalyptus Elementary School to plant a vegetable garden in preparation for Plant a Seed Day in Hawthorne, California on March 13, 2019.](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Kimbal-Musk-teaches-students-to-plant-a-garden-Eucalyptus-Elementary-CA-03132019.jpg)
![Farmworkers wear face masks while harvesting curly mustard in a field on February 10, 2021 in Ventura County, California.](https://thecounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/farm-workers-wear-face-masks-harvesting-curly-mustard-02102021-ventura-county-CA.jpg)