H. Claire Brown

Senior staff writer

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@hclaire_brown

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.

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Cutting meat in slaughterhouse. Butcher cutting pork at the meat manufacturing. December 2020
Foreign-born workers were blamed for spreading Covid-19 in meatpacking plants. Their behavior was not the issue, new research suggests.
Business
by H. Claire Brown
12.17.2020
Business
An exterior shot of a Taco Bell store. December 2020
Fast-food giants gobbled up $1 billion in federal aid for small businesses
Business
by H. Claire Brown + Jessica Fu
12.08.2020
Business
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue visits the Turner Dairy Farms in Pittsburg, PA to observe packing boxes for the Farmers to Families Food Box Program innovative. The program is helping fet food to those impacted by the Coronavirus on Wednesday, May 27, 2020. Their boxes are filled with a variety of nutritious dairy products to be distributed to veterans organizations in the Pittsburgh community. May 2020
Food box contractor sent itself $3 million worth of milk intended for Covid relief, House Democrat alleges
Politics
by H. Claire Brown + Jessica Fu
11.25.2020
Politics
Volunteers wait to distribute food boxes on Friday, Nov. 20, 2020 in Odessa, Texas.
On the weekend after Christmas, unemployment benefits will run out for 12 million Americans
Politics
by H. Claire Brown
11.20.2020
Politics
In this Oct. 1, 2020, photo an Amazon worker wears a mask and gloves as he delivers boxes downtown Los Angeles Friday, Oct. 2, 2020. Amazon says that nearly 20,000 of its workers have tested positive or been presumed positive for the virus that causes COVID-19. Amazon says in a corporate blog Thursday that it examined data from March 1 to Sept. 19 for its 1.37 million workers at Amazon and Whole Foods Market. It said that it compared COVID-19 case rates to the general population, as reported by Johns Hopkins University for the same period. Based on that analysis, if the rate among Amazon and Whole Foods employees were the same as it is for the general population rate, it estimated it would have seen 33,952 cases among its workforce.
Despite now offering $15 minimum wage, Amazon still a top employer of SNAP recipients in many states
Business
by H. Claire Brown
11.19.2020
Business
A pair of pink children's boots stands next to adult boots. November 2020
Government watchdog report finds child farmers erroneously receiving subsidy payments
Politics
by H. Claire Brown
11.17.2020
Politics
A black and white photo of the White House in front of a hay farm. November 2020
Trump spent four years gutting food and farm protections. Here’s what we predict will be reversed on day one of Biden’s term.
Politics
by H. Claire Brown + Jessica Fu + Sam Bloch
11.12.2020
Politics
Display of fresh salmon fillets in a fish market. November 2020
FDA must reassess potential environmental impact of GM salmon, federal judge rules
Environment
by H. Claire Brown
11.06.2020
Environment
A Doordash delivery gig worker rides his bike down a street. November 2020
Prop 22 passes in California, leaving hundreds of thousands of gig workers without employee protections
Business
by H. Claire Brown
11.04.2020
Business