Federally subsidized housing complexes, many of them owned by for-profit investors, fail to enforce basic safety standards.
Jarod Facundo
Jarod Facundo is an investigative journalist and former Prospect writing fellow.
Posted inTAP
Another Crisis Surrounds Us
Today on TAP: Life expectancy drops almost two years in the U.S., and it’s not just from COVID-19.
Posted inWorking in America
New Kellogg Contract Opens the Floodgates for Exploitation
BCTGM and Kellogg ratified a new five-year contract earlier this week after workers went on strike in October. Despite the short-term gains, many workers are skeptical.
Posted inPolitics
The (Government) Customer Is Always Right
A new executive order promises to speed the delivery of government services by modernizing cooperation across federal departments and state and local governments.
Posted inWorking in America
Kellogg Is Digging Its Own Grave
The company’s 1,400 striking workers want to replace an unequal two-tier wage system. While Kellogg fights to preserve it, quality and customer loyalty suffer.
Posted inThe Alt-Labor Chronicles: America’s Worker Centers
Helping the Powerless Build Power
Oral histories of five activists who’ve worked in and for worker centers
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
North Carolina Botched an Emergency Re-entry Program for Returning Citizens
A re-entry program that quarantined people with possible COVID-19 exposure endangered their lives and reproduced the prison conditions they left behind.