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Toxic Labor

This story also appeared in Columbia Journalism Investigations and Futuro Media Standing before a two-story house on the coast of Fort Myers Beach, Florida, where Hurricane Ian unleashed a seven-foot storm surge two weeks earlier, Marcos looked at the structure, shredded beyond repair.  Wearing a paper mask and gloves, the 54-year-old Nicaraguan immigrant walked inside. […]

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