Kate Cimini

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Kate Cimini is a reporter with the Salinas Californian and CalMatters' California Divide project. She covers economic inequality, agriculture, and housing. Previously, she covered national security, natural disasters, and sports. Her work has appeared in the Houston Chronicle, USA Today, VICE, The Athletic, Sports Illustrated online, and others.

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Fieldworkers are photographed picking strawberries on Saturday, April 25, 2020. Photo by David Rodriguez, The Salinas Californian.
Supreme Court decision could mean an increase in labor trafficking of farm workers
Politics
by Kate Cimini
07.15.2021
Politics
Two farmworkers sit at the end of strawberry field rows for their lunch break in Watsonville. January 2021
Farm workers suddenly lose $1.5 billion in Covid-19 safety funding
Health
by Kate Cimini
01.14.2021
Health
María Reyes, who tested positive for COVID-19, quarantines at her home in Mendota on Dec. 12, 2020. Reyes declined a hotel room with Housing for the Harvest out of concern she would have to leave her teenage daughter. December 2020
Why few farm workers isolate in California’s free Covid-19 hotel rooms
Health
by Jackie Botts + Kate Cimini + Georgia Gee
12.30.2020
Health
Wide angle shot of multiple workers in a field. August 2020
Covid-19 rips through motel rooms of farmworkers who pick nation’s produce
Health
by Jackie Botts + Kate Cimini
08.18.2020
Health
Farmworkers in truck
Face mask scarcity leaves California farmworkers unprotected
Health
by Kate Cimini
03.27.2020
Health
Farmworkers board labor bus
California farmworkers struggle with high cost of housing
Politics
by Kate Cimini
02.27.2020
Politics