Capital & Main, L.A. Times Win Sidney Award for Reporting on Child Farmworkers

Lax Oversight, Few Inspections Leave Child Farmworkers Exposed to Toxic Pesticides

A 17-year-old strawberry picker at one of the many berry fields in the Salinas Valley. Photo credit: Barbara Davidson In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we're doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. By Robert J. Lopez / Capital & Main Read part one of Capital & Main’s investigation into the health and safet…

Capital & Main, L.A. Times Win Sidney Award for Reporting on Child Farmworkers

A two-part series investigating California’s failure to protect underage farmworkers won the December Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman Foundation. The post Capital & Main, L.A. Times Win Sidney Award for Reporting on Child Farmworkers appeared first on .

Child labor abuse coverage wins Sidney Award

Robert J. Lopez, Barbara Davidson and Lorena Iñiguez Elebee win the December Sidney Award for their two-part series exposing child labor abuses on California farms, produced in partnership with Capital & Main, the Los Angeles Times and the McGraw Center for Business Journalism at the City University of New York’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. Experts estimate that between […]