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13 Dead in a Week of Workplace Catastrophes

Mar 27, 2023 Jordan Barab
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Weekly Toll: A Week of Deadly Catastrophes

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Triangle Shirtwaist: 112th Anniversary

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Child Labor: When Great Journalism Meets Bad Policy

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Please excuse the length of this post. But once I went down the rabbit hole, I couldn’t get out. To…

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East Palestine Part 2: Politics and the Road Ahead

Mar 1, 2023 Jordan Barab

Continued from Part 1: The Causes The Politics: Continued Warfare or a New Age of Bipartisanship? The politics of the…

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Weekly Toll

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Amazon Cited Again….And Again…And Again There should no longer be any doubt in anyone’s mind — even in Jeff Bezos’s…

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Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job

Feb 20, 2023 Jordan Barab

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OSHA announced today that it is inviting “the public and workplace safety stakeholders to share their comments on how the…

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Weekly Toll: Killed on the Job

Feb 13, 2023 Jordan Barab

I was away for a couple of weeks, so running behind. In this report, workers died from falls, drowned, were…

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