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Forced Labor & Rebuilding After Natural Disasters In The U.S.

01.23.2023 - By NPRPlay

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After Hurricane Katrina in 2006, hundreds of workers from India were promised jobs and green cards in what labor organizer Saket Soni calls "one of the largest cases of forced labor in modern U.S. history." He tells their story in The Great Escape.

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