Essential Workers

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The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX

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4.7 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

While much of America shelters in place, farmworkers, grocery store clerks and airline employees remain on the front lines of the coronavirus crisis. But what’s being done to protect them from catching and spreading the virus?

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0:00.0	From the Center for Investigative Reporting in PRX, this is Reveal.
0:06.6	I'm Al Letson.
0:08.1	Around 7pm, each night, the eerie silence that is spread through the streets of New York
0:13.4	City is being replaced by this.
0:19.6	Clapping, cheering, chanting, singing, it's not just New York.
0:23.9	Around the world, people are showing their gratitude for doctors and nurses.
0:28.8	But also delivery drivers, mail carriers, flight attendants, grocery store clerks, and
0:33.4	farm laborers.
0:35.1	The essential workers who can't work from home and don't always get sick pay, so what
0:39.8	protections are in place for workers who feel they have no choice but to stay on the job.
0:46.0	Monica Campbell of our partner show The World has been following how the pandemic is affecting
0:51.0	farm workers.
0:52.9	The week President Trump declared a national emergency, she headed to California's
0:56.9	farmlands.
0:57.9	The chances are those strawberries, tomatoes, lettuce, or almonds you see in your supermarket
1:02.5	come from this area.
1:04.6	Since that day, she followed the story of the tough choices facing people who make sure
1:09.1	we have food on our tables.
1:16.4	I head to Greenfield.
1:17.8	It's a small town of about 20,000 people.
1:21.6	It's the second week of March.
1:23.6	And about 250 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in California.
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