Investigating Workers’ Compensation in New York, grantee finds a “long retreat”
New York became the first state in the nation to set up a workers’ compensation system in the wake of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. The program covers medical bills and cash for recovery time for countless injured workers. But in recent years, the program’s benefits have quietly shrunk by over a third, according […]
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