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Morning Headlines with Sam Mellins, Senior Reporter at New York Focus, 7/1/26

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By David Guistina Verified, Sam Mellins Verified
| The Roundtable (Podcast)
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Home Health Aides Win $162 Million in Wage Theft Settlement

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By Sam Mellins Verified
| News from the States
The company that runs New York’s state-funded home care program has agreed to pay its workers $162 million to settle a wage theft lawsuit filed last year. The deal, which must be approved by a federal judge, is one of the largest wage-related payouts in New York history, according to lawyers Hugh Baran of Katz Banks Kumin LLP  and Michael Diller of the Legal Aid Society, who were part of the legal team that represented the plaintiffs.
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A Union for Home Care Workers? Many Are Wary.

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By Sam Mellins Verified
| News from the States
On the 16th floor of a Midtown office building, dozens of union members are running the largest organizing drive in modern US history. Six days a week, from morning to night, members of powerhouse health care union 1199SEIU call low-wage home health aides and ask them to sign union cards. For months, they’ve been talking to workers in 12 languages, including Creole, Yoruba, and Burmese.
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