To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

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Dirty Jobs Don’t Have To Be Lousy Jobs

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BY FROMA HARROP “Why Americans Won’t Do Dirty Jobs” is the presumptuous headline on a Bloomberg Businessweek cover. The subject is Alabama’s new no-tolerance policy toward illegal immigrants and the people who hire them. As expected, the law has caused an exodus of undocumented workers from Alabama, depriving fish-processors, farmers and other businesses of hands […]

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Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton became editor of The Observer in September 2006. Previously, he served nearly two decades as the Dallas Morning News’ Oklahoma Bureau chief. He also covered government and politics for the San Jose Mercury News, the Dallas Times Herald, the Tulsa Tribune and the Oklahoma Journal.
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Brette Pruitt
September 5, 2022
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