Esther Kaplan
- 2013
Fellowship Title:
- The High Costs of Speed
Fellowship Year:
- 2013
FELLOWSHIP STORIES – (2)
Losing Sparta
August 22, 2015
Last August, more than a year after the Philips lighting fixture plant in Sparta, Tennessee, closed its doors, Bo McCurry and Ricky Lack stepped out of Lack’s beat-up Ford Ranger and walked up the sloping, tree-lined drive to the plant’s padlocked gates. It was the first time either one had been back since the closure.
Americans Are Working So Hard, It’s Actually Killing People
October 28, 2014
Jessica Wheeler works the night shift as an oncology nurse at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital in northeastern Pennsylvania—but her patients are usually wide awake. “When they have a new cancer diagnosis or they’re going to have a biopsy in the morning, they don’t sleep,”