Milwaukee parent Domininck Tompkins has lived in rental units with lead hazards for many years. Despite her efforts to negotiate with landlords, her children have struggled with elevated lead levels. Credit: Darren Hauck for The Hechinger Report
Kids double as lead detectors and retail workers demand job safety
EHRP’S LATEST
- Negligent landlords expose Milwaukee children to such high lead exposure that kids’ blood tests often serve as the city’s lead detectors in the fight for safe housing, reports Sarah Carr. [EHRP / The Hechinger Report / The Nation]
- The federal government is rolling back worker protections as corporations deny workers’ comp, and injured retail workers are left to fend for themselves, reports Ann Larson. [EHRP / The Nation]
- Viral videos of college grads boo-ing commencement speakers celebrating AI reveal a massive shift in public opinion led by young people entering a workforce decimated by artificial intelligence, writes EHRP Editorial Director Alissa Quart. [EHRP / Mother Jones]
EHRP AWARDS
- The “Wood Street” winning streak continues! Caron Creighton’s EHRP-supported documentary won the Audience Award for Best Feature at SF Indie Fest!
EHRP IRL
- Quart joined director Karla Murthy at New York City’s DCTV Firehouse for a Q&A after a screening of Murthy’s award-winning, EHRP-supported documentary “The Gas Station Attendant.”
- EHRP Book Fellow Ann Larson joined New York State Senator Gustavo Rivera on WBAI-FM to discuss her new EHRP-supported and critically-acclaimed memoir Cleanup on Aisle Five: Essential Work, Poverty Wages, and the View from Behind the Supermarket Register.
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