Tag: Migrant Labor (Non-Agriculture)

Chicago Begins Evicting Migrants From Shelters, Citing Strain on Resources

Chicago officials on Sunday began evicting some migrants from shelters, joining other cities that have made similar moves to ease pressure on overstretched resources. The process is starting gradually. Out of the nearly 11,000 migrants living in 23 homeless shelters in Chicago, according to the Office of Emergency Management and Communications, a fraction — 34 […]

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Many Older Immigrants in New York Are Struggling: ‘I Have No Future’

Francisco Palacios, who grew up poor in Ecuador, came to New York City in 1986 so that he could earn enough to someday retire back home. But after getting stuck in low-paying jobs at restaurants, construction sites and a laundromat, Mr. Palacios, now 70, has no savings and is just trying to survive. Most weekdays, […]

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New York Food Delivery Workers, Overlooked in Life, Are Honored in Death

After the brass band packed up its instruments, Sergio Solano and two other food delivery workers walked a white bicycle to an overpass within view of the United Nations headquarters. A fellow worker, or compañero, as they call each other meaning “partner,” had died less than two weeks earlier that September in yet another bicycle […]

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How the War With Hamas Has Damaged Israel’s Tech Firms and Economy

At 6:45 a.m. on Oct. 7, Jack “Tato” Bigio, the founder of the technology company UBQ Materials, talked to his chief operating officer, who said that terrorists were on his kibbutz. Other employees texted that they were hiding in safe rooms, and one said her husband had been shot in the stomach. “It was like […]

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An $80 Billion Industry Looks for Child Workers. It Keeps Missing Them.

One morning in 2019, an auditor arrived at a meatpacking plant in rural Minnesota. He was there on behalf of the national drugstore chain Walgreens to ensure that the factory, which made the company’s house brand of beef jerky, was safe and free of labor abuses. He ran through a checklist of hundreds of possible […]

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Low Prices and High Hopes at a Pop-Up Market on Randall’s Island

Since early October, an ecosystem of barbers, vendors and chefs has sprung up outside one of the city’s largest migrant shelters at Randall’s Island Athletic Field 83. Photographs and Text by Sebastian Sele Dec. 10, 2023 Dusk was falling on a chilly fall day on Randall’s Island and a small crowd of people from around […]

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What Today’s Migrant Crisis Looks Like to a Holocaust Refugee

Even with New York’s complicated history as a port for new arrivals, the photographs this summer of more than a hundred migrants sleeping shoulder to shoulder on the sidewalk outside the once-elegant Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan were shocking. So were scenes of young migrants idling on sidewalks, stoops and park benches, desperate to work […]

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Migrant Workers Propelled China’s Rise. Now Many See Few Options.

“My ideal country is one where the people live in peace and prosperity, where there is food safety, freedom of speech, justice, a media that can expose injustices, a five-day, eight-hour workweek for workers,” said Mr. Zhang, the unemployed welder. “If these can be achieved, I will support whoever is in power, regardless of their […]

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Amid Migrant Influx, Massachusetts Will No Longer Guarantee Shelter

The emergency shelter system in Massachusetts has been stretched to its breaking point, Gov. Maura Healey said on Monday, and the state will no longer guarantee shelter placements for new arrivals beginning next month, despite a law that says eligible families must be offered temporary housing. The announcement comes after months of escalating pressure on […]

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New York’s Right to Shelter Is Under Attack. Again.

He found his lead plaintiff at the Holy Name Center for Homeless Men on Bleecker Street. He was a middle-aged former short-order cook named Robert Callahan who drank himself into vagrancy. Though his friends in the Catholic Worker movement thought a lawsuit should focus on Cardinal Terrence Cooke, because so many of the flophouses were […]

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Tyson and Perdue Are Facing Child Labor Investigations

Tyson Foods and Perdue Farms, which together produce a third of the poultry sold in the United States, are under federal investigation into whether they relied on migrant children to clean slaughterhouses, some of the most dangerous work in the country. The Labor Department opened the inquiries after an article in The New York Times […]

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Influx of Migrants Exposes Democrats’ Division on Immigration

In recent years, Alisa Pata, a lifelong Democrat living in Manhattan, has spent far more time worrying about Donald J. Trump than immigration. But now, as she reads about the influx of migrants coming to her city, that’s starting to change. “We have too many people coming in,” said Ms. Pata, 85, as her older […]

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Portraits of Fire Victims: Two Toddlers Named ‘Memory,’ and a Teacher About to Wed

As many as 600 people called the squalid five-story building at 80 Albert Street in downtown Johannesburg home. Nearly three weeks after a fire tore through the building, leaving at least 77 people dead, survivors recall those they lost and the workaday family lives they led inside a trash-strewn building that had no heat, and […]

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Illegal Mopeds and Fake Names: Migrants Scrape By in Underground Economy

Mr. Milano said he needs the work, no matter the conditions. In Caracas, he was a motorcycle taxi driver, and his wife, Yohelin Nazaret, 31, managed a clothing store. “Things fell into chaos, we lost our jobs,” she said. “We were scraping the bottom of the barrel.” To pay for the three-month journey with their […]

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Massachusetts Welcomes Migrants, But Towns Are Worried

Barely two weeks had passed since the migrant crisis arrived in their city of 40,000 people, 10 miles northwest of Boston, but the volunteers gathered at a church in Woburn on a recent evening sounded battle weary. The small group of locals — including a kindergarten teacher, a Methodist pastor and a Haitian American woman […]

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Eric Adams Asserts Migrant Crisis Will ‘Destroy New York City’

Mayor Eric Adams escalated his rhetoric over the migrant crisis on Wednesday night, claiming in stark terms that New York City was being destroyed by an influx of migrants from the southern border and saying that he did not see a way to fix the issue. “Let me tell you something New Yorkers, never in […]

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