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Wages, the workplace, and the hands that feed us.

In a first, Michigan orders farms and meatpacking plants to test workers for Covid-19

08.10.2020
Sam Bloch
Covid-19 outbreaks keep sidelining vessels owned by one of Seattle’s largest fishing companies. No one’s entirely sure why.
08.05.2020
by Baylen J. Linnekin
Thousands of food workers walk off the job in a “Strike for Black Lives”
07.17.2020
by Sam Bloch
Florida farm workers endure 116 dangerously hot working days every growing season. Laws to protect them have failed three years in a row.
07.07.2020
by Sam Bloch
Cities capped food delivery platform fees during the pandemic. Grubhub and Postmates resisted these limits, citing confusion.
06.19.2020
by H. Claire Brown
New York’s police will no longer crack down on street vendors–but who will?
06.12.2020
by Gaby Del Valle
Farmworkers in America’s tomato capital may have one of the highest rates of coronavirus infection globally
06.08.2020
by Leah Sankey
In Bristol Bay, Alaska, locals fear Covid-19 will arrive along with 12,000 temporary salmon workers
05.22.2020
by Bailey Berg
Trump uses executive power to declare meat plants “critical infrastructure” during pandemic—ensuring they remain open
04.28.2020
by Kate Cox + Joe Fassler