From the New York Times, I'm Michael Burber. This is The Daily.

Today, a quarter century ago, Ford Motor Company paid out millions of dollars in settlement.

After a group of women came forward to accuse the company of a culture of harassment and menace.

Now, a new round of allegations at the very same Ford plants raises questions about the possibility of change.

It's Thursday, December 21st.

Get away from it all. In the new Explorer from Ford, if you're looking for four doors and more interior room than any vehicle in its class,

if you want four litre power and push button full wheel drive in the best selling vehicle in its class,

if the only thing you want to leave behind is the city, your Explorer is ready.

Okay, so life before Ford, there wasn't a lot of it.

Suzette Wright in the 90s is a young single mom living in Chicago.

I was working two jobs, minimum wage.

A receptionist at Supercuts and she's doing data entry at another company.

And taking classes here and there at a community college.

Her dad works at the Ford Motor Company. There's a big sprawling plant on the south side of Chicago on the far south side.

And for some reason, I went to visit my dad at the plant.

And so she happens to be there one day visiting him and someone mentions that there are tests coming up.

Test to get jobs.

Test to get jobs, yeah.

Catherine Einhorn is an investigative reporter at the times.

So she takes the test and she finds out that she gets it.

And she is just elated as she said, crazy insane elated.

Immediately, I was making a lot more money.

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