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☆ Pulitzer Prizes: 2024 Winners List
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( The New York Times | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

PUBLIC SERVICEProPublicaThe Pulitzer committee honored ProPublica for the work of Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott, Brett Murphy, Alex Mierjeski and Kirsten Berg, citing their “groundbreaking and ambitious reporting that pierced the thick wall of secrecy surrounding the Supreme Court.”Finalists KFF Health News and Cox Media Group; The Washington PostBREAKING NEWSStaff of Lookout Santa CruzLookout Santa Cruz won for “its detailed and nimble community-focused coverage, over a holiday weekend, of catastrophic flooding and mudslides that displaced thousands of residents and destroyed more than 1,000 homes and businesses.”Finalists Staff of Honolulu Civil Beat; Staff of The Los Angeles TimesINVESTIGATIVE REPORTINGHannah Dreier of The New York TimesMs. Dreier was honored for “a deeply reported series of stories revealing the stunning reach of migrant child labor across the United States — and the corporate and governmental failures that perpetuate it.”Finalists Staff of Bloomberg; Casey Ross and Robert Herman of Stat

Persons: ProPublica, Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott, Brett Murphy, Alex Mierjeski, Kirsten Berg, Hannah Dreier, Dreier, “, Casey Ross, Robert Herman of Stat Organizations: Cox Media Group, Washington, Staff, Santa, ”, Staff of, Staff of Honolulu Civil Beat, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, United States —, Bloomberg Locations: Santa Cruz, Staff of Honolulu, United States

☆ The New York Times and The Washington Post Win 3 Pulitzers Each
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Michael M. Grynbaum | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The New York Times and The Washington Post received three Pulitzer Prizes each on Monday for a wide array of journalism that spanned conflict and injustice around the globe, including the plight of child migrant workers in the American Midwest, the lethal consequences of war in the Middle East and the brutal repression of dissent in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. The prize for public service, considered the most prestigious of the Pulitzers, went to ProPublica for exposing a web of questionable financial entanglements involving Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court. The series, which revealed that Justice Thomas failed to disclose lavish gifts he had received from wealthy supporters, prompted the court to issue a new ethical code of conduct. The prize for investigations went to Hannah Dreier of The Times, for an exposé of migrant child labor in the modern United States, and the governmental blunders and disregard that have allowed the illegal practice to persist. This was the second Pulitzer awarded to Ms. Dreier, who won the 2019 feature writing prize for her coverage of the criminal gang MS-13 for ProPublica.

Persons: Vladimir Putin’s, Clarence Thomas of, Thomas, Hannah Dreier, Dreier Organizations: New York Times, Washington Post, U.S, Supreme, The Times Locations: American Midwest, Vladimir Putin’s Russia, United States

☆ U.S. Failed to Safeguard Many Migrant Children, Review Finds
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Hannah Dreier | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

An independent government watchdog found serious lapses at the Department of Health and Human Services in its protection of children who migrate to the United States on their own, according to a report released Thursday. H.H.S., the federal agency responsible for sheltering migrant children when they arrive by themselves, repeatedly handed them over to adult sponsors in the United States without thorough vetting and sometimes failed to conduct timely safety checks on children once they were released, said the report by the department’s inspector general. “I would define these gaps as very serious,” said Haley Lubeck, the project leader for the review. “We know that these children are especially vulnerable to exploitation.”The findings echoed New York Times reporting that the screening of sponsors and other safeguards for migrant children broke down during the first years of the Biden administration as hundreds of thousands of children crossed the border amid a pandemic-era economic collapse in parts of Central America. Migrant children have ended up working dangerous industrial jobs in violation of child labor laws across the country — in slaughterhouses, factories, construction sites and elsewhere, The Times found.

Persons: H.H.S, “, ”, Haley Lubeck, Biden Organizations: Department of Health, Human Services, New York Times, Times Locations: United States, Central America, slaughterhouses

☆ Confronted With Child Labor in the U.S., Companies Move to Crack Down
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-07 | by ( Hannah Dreier | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Many major U.S. companies — including some of the country’s biggest consumer brands — say they are taking steps to eliminate child labor in their domestic supply chains amid revelations that children are working throughout American manufacturing and food production. Working to exhaustion, children have been crushed by construction equipment, gotten yanked into industrial machinery and fallen to their deaths from rooftops. Now, McDonald’s says it is requiring private inspectors to review overnight shifts at slaughterhouses that provide some of its meat, where children as young as 13 were cleaning heavy machinery. Suppliers for Ford Motor Company must now scrutinize the faces of employees when they arrive for work. Costco is commissioning more audits with Spanish-speaking inspectors.

Persons: McDonald’s Organizations: New York Times, Ford Motor Company, Costco

☆ Child Labor and the Broken Border
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( David Leonhardt | More About David Leonhardt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Tens of thousands of children in the U.S., spanning all 50 states, work full time, often on overnight shifts and in dangerous jobs. For the past year and a half, my colleague Hannah Dreier has been reporting on the explosion of child labor among young migrants who have recently arrived in this country. The story exposes the human costs of this country’s broken immigration system. Over the past 15 years, entering the U.S. without legal permission has become easier, especially for children. A 2008 law, intended to protect children from harm on the Mexican side of the border, has meant that children can usually enter the country without documentation.

Persons: Tyson, —, Hannah Dreier, Marcos Cux, Perdue, Hannah, “, Dexter Filkins Organizations: Perdue, Tyson Foods, Government, Times Magazine Locations: U.S, Washington, Virginia, Central America

☆ Labor Department Decries Surge in Exploited Migrant Children
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Hannah Dreier | More About Hannah Dreier | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Labor Department on Thursday decried a national surge in child labor, saying that the agency’s inspectors had found thousands of violations and were investigating a slaughterhouse where a 16-year-old boy from Guatemala was killed this month. The update followed a hearing on Wednesday in which lawmakers from both parties accused the Health and Human Services secretary, Xavier Becerra, of failing to protect migrant children from exploitation. “There are some terrible things that are wrong,” Representative Anna G. Eshoo, a Democrat from California, told him. secretary, the buck stops with you.”Some 300,000 minors have come to this country alone since 2021, fueling a dramatic increase in migrant child labor. In an online report, the Labor Department announced an 87 percent increase in fines on employers in recent months.

Persons: Xavier Becerra, Anna G, “ Organizations: Labor Department, Human Services Locations: Guatemala, California

☆ Migrant Child Labor Debate in Congress Becomes Mired in Immigration Fight
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( Karoun Demirjian | Hannah Dreier | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Weeks after revelations that migrant children are being regularly exploited for cheap labor in the United States prompted bipartisan outrage and calls to action on Capitol Hill, Congress has moved no closer to addressing the issue, which has become mired in a long-running partisan war over immigration policy. Legislation to crack down on companies’ use of child labor has gone nowhere and currently has little Republican backing, while Democrats’ efforts to increase funding for federal agencies to provide more support services to migrant children who cross the border by themselves face long odds in the House, where the G.O.P. has pledged to slash agency budgets. At the time, Republican proposals to institute tougher vetting of adults in households sponsoring migrant children and expedite the removal of unaccompanied minors stand little chance of gaining ground in the Democratic-led Senate. Instead, as Congress prepares to wade into a bitter debate over immigration policy in the coming days, Republicans and Democrats have retreated to their opposite corners, abandoning whatever initial hope there may have been for tackling the issue of child labor in a bipartisan way.

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