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New York’s Rampant Wage Theft Goes Unpunished

Investigating the prevalence of wage theft in New York and how the state is failing to protect workers.

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Proposed Wage Theft Legislation Would Strip Violators of Their Ability to Do Business in New York

“We did not have the data to understand the scale of the issue in New York State until the ProPublica and Documented series came out last year,” state Sen. Jessica Ramos said.

by Marcus Baram, Documented,

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127,000 New York Workers Have Been Victims of Wage Theft

by Max Siegelbaum, Documented, with data analysis by Agnel Philip, ProPublica, and Lam Thuy Vo, special to ProPublica,

New York Workers Are Waiting on $79 Million in Back Wages

by Marcus Baram, Documented, with data analysis by Agnel Philip, ProPublica, and Lam Thuy Vo, special to ProPublica,