Joseph Sorrentino, Reporter at Type Investigations

Social Security Doesn’t Come To All Who Paid

Farmworkers find their employers pocketed their Social Security payments — rendering them ineligible for benefits.

Contratistas are finally paying farmworkers the minimum wage. But most still aren’t paying for the time spent waiting.

Joseph SorrentinoAugust 28, 2014

New Mexico’s chile pickers and farmworkers are making below state minimum wage, despite warnings from the state’s Department of Workforce Solutions.

Farmers must pay chile pickers 25 cents more per hour, state says.

Green chiles are a hot commodity, but the fields are overgrown with wage theft.

El acoso y abuso sexual son generalizados entre las indocumentadas en los Estados Unidos.

For sexual harassers, undocumented farmworkers make the “perfect victims.”