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More workers than ever are independent contractors. Gig companies want to...

Some employers don’t want to call their workers employees anymore. At least 11 states have considered laws enabling most online platforms for goods and services to turn many workers into independent...

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Hunting the ghost fleet (rebroadcast)

This week’s episode of Reveal investigates shark fishing in Central America and a U.S.-based seafood company that claims to be a model of sustainability. We start in the jungles of El Salvador, where...

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California officials grill Tesla on safety problems exposed in Reveal...

California officials doling out lucrative tax exemptions to Tesla Inc. grilled the electric carmaker’s top safety executive on its treatment of injured workers at a meeting in the state capital this...

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The High Human Cost of America’s Sugar Habit

Additional reporting by Euclides Cordero Nuel Photos by Pedro Farias-Nardi This story is published in partnership with Mother Jones. It was 5 a.m. and still dark as we rolled west out of Santo...

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“They Just Came and Started Breaking Houses”

This story is published in partnership with Mother Jones. On a November day in a remote corner of the Dominican Republic, a line of trucks rolled across a vast sugarcane plantation and pulled up at a...

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No Longer a Trade Secret: Diversity Data From the Country’s Mega Contractors

Executives at companies that receive billions of dollars in federal contracts were less likely to reflect America’s diversity than their employees, according to a first-ever analysis by USA TODAY and...

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People of Color Were Promised Equal Opportunity. Federal Contractors Are...

Each year, thousands of companies land lucrative federal contracts, producing COVID-19 vaccines, manufacturing missile defense systems or serving hot meals.  But taking a slice of the hundreds of...

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After History of Discrimination, These Federal Contractors Fought to Hide...

As the only woman on a 10-person sales team at Dell Inc., Marsha Cipollone said she was pushed down and pushed out while less-experienced men were handed the plum accounts. Cipollone said she was...

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‘The Opportunities Are Gatekept’: Coffee Shops Continue to Fall Short on...

The nation’s largest coffee brand joined the ranks of companies pledging to increase diversity in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. Starbucks set a goal of 30% people...

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Federal Agents Investigating Sugar Exporter Over Allegations of Forced Labor...

The Americans pulling into the luxury Caribbean resort town of Juan Dolio could have easily passed as tourists. Dressed in jeans and tennis shoes, they set up at a hotel overlooking the Dominican...

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