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Howard Berkes

Corporate America’s unforgivable new swindle: Leveling workers’ compensation to nothing

Michael Grabell, ProPublica, Howard Berkes, NPR
Despite the setbacks he’s faced with his injury and workers’ comp, Dennis Whedbee has tried to maintain an active life, waking early for yard sales, cooking homemade spaghetti sauce and throwing a football with his grandsons. Here, he walks his grandson Haven, 2, back inside their home in Homer City, Pennsylvania.(Jeff Swensen for ProPublica) (Jeff Swensen For Propublica)

“I lost a hand. I didn’t lose a hook”: Inside the crippling decline of workers’ compensation

Michael Grabell, Howard Berkes