Labor exploitation in the care home industry

This project found more than 1,400 cases in which care-home operators across the nation broke minimum wage, overtime or record-keeping laws. Court documents stated bosses sometimes intimidated or abused workers, and even withheld their passports.

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May 2019

Portrait of a woman named Julie Riduta, in scrubs. — Photograph of Julie Riduta by James Tensuan

Contributions

My contribution to this project was cleaning and analyzing data on:

wage theft published by the [U.S. Department of Labor]
care home facility inspections by the California Department of Social Services
companies that run care home facilities in the California Secretary of State’s business registry

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