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In Nigeria, estranged trafficking survivors struggle to return home during the pandemic with little help from the government. This reporting was syndicated in Spanish by El País, by Kenya’s Nation, Nigeria’s Premium Times, and eight other outlets and was sourced by the Council on Foreign Relations.
Our series in The Telegraph, on PBS NewsHour, and for The Fuller Project exposed wide-spread ramifications and causes of increased sexually abusive posts of children and a 200 percent increase in online posts (by Louise Donovan and Corinne Redfern).
We broke the news that the U.S. military spent $500K defending a U.S. Marine who murdered a trans woman in the Philippines. The New York Times featured the piece in its Morning Briefing Newsletter (by Corinne Redfern for New York Times Magazine).
We reported on timely new data from U.N. Women & the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) showing how COVID-19 has affected trafficking survivors and anti-trafficking organizations. The OSCE shared the reporting in their newsletter, and reporting was syndicated by PBS and highlighted by Fortune’s Broadsheet (Corinne Redfern for The Fuller Project).
Compounding factors place Black child care providers at risk in Pennsylvania. Providers struggle to stay open with revenue tied to state-run childcare subsidies (by Malcolm Burnley for The Fuller Project).
Women were more likely to drop out of the workforce as federal aid and protections expire. Our data-informed reporting done in collaboration with Reuters was syndicated by 25 newsrooms (by contributor Rachel Dissell and Jonnelle Marte of Reuters).
Many American farm workers have been forced to take their children to work and advocates say children as young as eight have been seen working in the fields. Our article led The Washington Post’s “Most Read.” Several members of Congress, Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, Farmworker Justice, Farm Policy and others cited and circulated the reporting (by contributor Erica Hellerstein).
Together with the Los Angeles Times, we reported on California’s child care providers with data showing that over 9000 centers in the state had permanently or temporarily closed. The article was an Apple News top story and was read by over 500,000 (by Rikha Sharma Rani for Los Angeles Times, syndicated by Yahoo News, mentioned in Politico CA Playbook.)
In TIME we were among the first to draw attention to the economic impact of COVID on women (by Xanthe Scharff for TIME).
Federal data on race and gender in the immediate economic aftermath of the pandemic was limited and policies were being crafted without sufficient understanding of the impact on vulnerable workers. We called on the federal government to release more robust disaggregated data weekly (by Susan Smith Richardson and Xanthe Scharff for The Boston Globe).
In California, the pandemic devastated the $3 billion nail industry. Three out of four manicurists are of Vietnamese descent (by contributor Erica Hellerstein for San Francisco Chronicle).
We featured a homeless mother struggling to find shelter in Los Angeles during COVID-19 and her advocacy for abandoned properties to be used to house families. Following, activists successfully negotiated with the city to use vacant properties (by contributor Colleen Hagerty for Marie Claire).
The pandemic exacerbated the crisis in Black maternal mortality in Wisconsin, where Black mothers were dying at five times the rate of white mothers pre-pandemic (by Jessica Washington for The Fuller Project).
