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Max Siegelbaum

Waiting on Paychecks

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

An analysis of federal and state databases sheds new light on the prevalence and scale of wage theft in New York restaurants and other industries, placing the total wages stolen in one five-year period at more than $203 million.

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

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