The archaic practice is standing in the way of across-the-board reforms that are necessary to end the exploitation of the industry’s workforce.

Is it any wonder they are quitting in droves?

Covid-19 rates are spiking, debts are mounting, and workers and owners are trapped in a hell of Congress’s making.

He was the dean of American cooking. He embodied some of food culture’s most persistent problems.

The GOP blocks the stimulus. Nonessential businesses reopen and people go back to work because they need money. Cases surge. People die.

Workers were barely getting by before the pandemic, and the situation has only grown more desperate since then.