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An old woman stands in front of a table in a home.

‘A classic tale of human greed’: California caregivers earn as little as $2 an hour

Business, Economics and Jobs

Throughout California, many of the workers in elderly care facilities face inhumane conditions, wage theft, and abuse form their employers. Despite efforts from the state, many of these crimes go unpunished and workers are left with few options.

A woman sits at her desk with papers in front of her.

These caregivers work in conditions ‘akin to modern-day slavery.’ In California, wage theft is ‘rampant.’

Business, Economics and Jobs
an illustration of the silhouettes of children on a detention center building

US government uses several clandestine shelters to detain immigrant children

brazilian supporters of president-elect jair bolsonaro

Brazil’s version of Trump makes Trump look like Mr. Rogers

Commentary
the grand canyon in the US

Top Interior officials ordered parks to end science policy, emails show

Environment
sinks where migrant children allegedly bathed in Phoenix

Immigrant kids held in second Phoenix office seen bathing in sinks

A defense contractor that held immigrant children overnight in a Phoenix office building operates a second office nearby where a neighbor has seen immigrant children bathing themselves in bathroom sinks.

The Shiloh Residential Treatment Center in Manvel, Texas, has a history of problems, including deaths of children in its custody and allegations children were systematically drugged with psychotropic medications.

Immigrant children forcibly injected with drugs, lawsuit claims

Immigration

Children held at Shiloh Treatment Center, a government contractor south of Houston that houses immigrant minors, described being held down and injected, according to federal court filings.

The Shiloh Residential Treatment Center in Manvel, Texas

Migrant children coming to the US are being sent to shelters with histories of child abuse allegations

Immigration

Since 2003, the US Health and Human Services Department has awarded nearly $5 billion in grants through the Office of Refugee Resettlement, mostly to religious and nonprofit organizations in 18 states, to house children who arrive in the country unaccompanied. The program grew quickly in 2014, when around 70,000 children crossed the southern border alone.

This rendering depicts an aerial view of a flooded National Mall area in Washington, DC, in 2100 if global emissions rise and a Category 3 hurricane hits the city. It was included in an October 2016 webinar by University of Colorado Boulder’s Maria Caffre

National Park Service restores climate change language in new report after being accused of censoring science

Environment

Early drafts of the report showed park service officials had deleted every mention of humans causing climate change. The scientific report is designed to help 118 coastal parks plan for protecting natural resources and historic treasures from the changing climate.

Immigrants sit in a cell for incoming ICE detainees at the Adelanto immigration detention center in Adelanto, California, April 13, 2017.

ICE isn’t following its own handbook on how to deport kids

Immigration

An internal federal immigration handbook’s regulations outlining how minors “aging out” of custody are supposed to be treated contrasts starkly with realities on the ground, according to immigration advocates and a federal judge’s ruling.