Editor's Note: This story is a collaboration between The Charlotte Optimist and WFAE. Congress has cut federal funding for public media — an $800,000 loss for WFAE. We count on readers like you to ...

Alexander, a 19-year-old day laborer, stands at his usual spot in the Mission District in the early morning, keeping an eye out for employers who drive by. Photo by Mariana Garcia. When a truck pulls ...

Many day laborers spent Saturday cleaning up Columbus Park in Mamaroneck, a place where they used to gather to look for work. The immigrants wanted to clean the park to show residents that they care ...

Osvaldo Castro was one of just three day laborers lingering not far from a Home Depot in Santa Ana. The scene Wednesday morning was a marked change from the dozens of men who usually wait along ...

Life's Struggles and Resilience Life is filled with challenges, and one can never predict when trouble might strike. However, ...

Avery Barteaux, 17, a junior, works on an arbor during class at Essex North Shore Agricultural & Technical High School in Danvers, Mass. Essex Tech’s construction craft laborers program partners with ...

CHICAGO — Five days after armed federal agents descended on the Swap-O-Rama flea market and took more than a dozen people away, some of the market’s vendors were back at work, selling tools, hot sauce ...

For many service workers, a wealthy Los Angeles neighborhood represented an economic lifeline that the fires have now severed. By Orlando Mayorquín and Emily Baumgaertner Orlando Mayorquín reported ...

Editor's Note: This story is a collaboration between The Charlotte Optimist and WFAE. He arrives around 8:30 a.m., 65 years old, eight months sober and wearing a T-shirt that reads, “NOPE: Not going ...

On the edge of the parking lot of a Home Depot in Alameda County this past week, a woman sold a warm cup of atole, a traditional masa-based drink from Mexico, to a man and his son. She had just ...