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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...