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Stephen Franklin, former labor and workplace reporter for the Chicago Tribune, is ethnic news director for the Community Media Workshop in Chicago. He is the author of Three Strikes: Labor’s Heartland Losses and What They Mean for Working Americans (2002), and has reported throughout the United States and the Middle East.

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Franklin, who speaks Turkish, Arabic, Hebrew and Spanish, spent time in Egypt teaching journalists while on a Knight International Press Fellowship. He has received two Lisagor awards for business reporting and a George Polk Award for consumer interest reporting with Marcia Stepanek at the Detroit Free Press in 1983. Franklin lives on the North Side of Chicago with his wife, director of a local social services agency. The couple have two children.

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- 18 Nov 09
Trucker’s Dream? Obama Reconsiders 11th-Hour Bush Decision

By Stephen Franklin You're tired. It’s dark. This part of the highway is tough driving. And the humongous… more
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- 11 Nov 09
The Workers Behind the Burgers

By Stephen Franklin While you are considering a hamburger tonight, let me tell you something you probably weren’t… more
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- 03 Nov 09
U.S. Poverty: If Only We Knew How Bad It Really Is

By Stephen Franklin You’re sure we’ve been sliding downhill, steadily downward into greater poverty. But you wonder how… more
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- 23 Oct 09
On a Night Train in Egypt, Where Poverty is a Traveler Too

By Stephen Franklin CROSSING EGYPT BY TRAIN—On a rack above me in a crowded train hurtling through the… more
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- 16 Sep 09
Step Up and Play the (Jobless) Recovery Game.

We are going to play a little card trick, so I will need your total attention. Hands off… more
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- 09 Sep 09
They Pick Empty Pockets: Study Finds Wage Theft Rampant

As Adam Kader sees it, workplace thievery has changed since the recession began. When the U.S. economy began… more