As COVID-19 Ravaged This Iowa City, Officials Discovered Meatpacking Executives Were the Ones in Charge
by Michael Grabell and Bernice Yeung ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The coronavirus crept through Waterloo, Iowa, quietly at first. In an apartment on the west side of town, a Karenni refugee from Myanmar woke up one morning […]
Emails Show the Meatpacking Industry Drafted an Executive Order to Keep Plants Open
by Michael Grabell and Bernice Yeung ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. In late April, as COVID-19 raced through meatpacking plants sickening and killing workers, President Donald Trump issued a controversial executive order aimed at keeping the plants open […]
