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  • 07 Nov 09

  Searching for Work and Stability, Vets Fight New Battles at Home

  By Michelle Chen The tragedy at Fort Hood may strike Americans as a singular, incomprehensible horror. But the… more

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  • 03 Nov 09

  Protesters Tell It On the Mountain in Coal Country

  By Michelle Chen Coal River Mountain in West Virginia is rumbling. Last week's … more

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  • 30 Oct 09

  Where Credit is Due: Tax Breaks to Spur Hiring?

  By Michelle Chen After doling out stimulus dollars, shoring up state agencies and setting up construction jobs, Washington… more

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  • 27 Oct 09

  Legal Dissonance: Immigration Policies Clash with Worker Protections

  By Michelle Chen A… more

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  • 23 Oct 09

  Risks and Returns: Exploiting the Immigrant Detention Industry

  By Michelle Chen Last winter, a remote Texas prison convulsed in a cry of outrage, voicing the desperation… more

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  • 20 Oct 09

  Women and the Global Labor Movement: In Search of ‘Decent Work, Decent Life’

  By Michelle Chen The recession has been hard on the working man, but often, the least visible and… more

Latest Comments view all 2

• • 01 Sep 09
  • 5:07 pm

  Thanks for your comments on the Southern Poverty Law Center's survey. The paraphrasing of the findings stated exactly what the SPLC did--that according to the survey, eight in ten respondents *reported* experiencing the theft of their wages. Your points are well taken, though. One could, and should, interrogate the methodology used. Neither the post nor the SPLC argues that they were unbiased (they are an advocacy group after all) or that they drew from a comprehensive randomized sample. The report, in fact, is largely qualitative and based on interviews and media accounts. An academically rigorous piece of social science research? I …

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• • 04 Sep 09
  • 12:49 am

  Thanks, Richard. Regardless of political leanings (or the views of the Better Business Bureau, for that matter), many who follow this issue do note an extreme lack of comprehensive data and statistics about this workforce, which makes this report, among others, worth looking at. And again, I could reiterate what the post's paraphrasing of the report does and does not imply, but, I think readers at this point can turn to the sources and judge for themselves.

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