Records show administrators left a teacher in an elementary school classroom despite repeated concerns about his inappropriate behavior with students
Some immigration attorneys and scholars worry the ruling will make it harder for undocumented people to get probation
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This month, reporter Allegra Abramo introduces a project she’s been working on this summer:
Worker advocates applauded last month when the Seattle City Council voted to phase in a minimum wage increase to $15 an hour. But some worry the law won’t be vigorously enforced. They’ve seen too many workers struggle for justice after being cheated out of their wages.
It’s a topic Diego Rondón Ichikawa knows well. He is a staff attorney with the National Employment Law Project and founder of the Wage Justice Project.
“What Seattle did was historic,” he told me in an interview last month, “but it’s also important to make sure these workers are getting what they deserve under the law..."
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Records show administrators left a teacher in an elementary school classroom despite repeated concerns about his inappropriate behavior with students
Some immigration attorneys and scholars worry the ruling will make it harder for undocumented people to get probation
Sam Wolkenhauer ran anonymous accounts that generated thousands of dollars in subscriptions while posting pro-Russian commentary, slurs and Nazi imagery
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