MoJo Blog: Hispanic post-Katrina workers said to be living in terrible conditions and cheated out of pay

As seen before here, but now on a Mother Jones’ blog. Who even knew they had one.

“Hispanic workers who went to the Mississippi Gulf Coast to do hurricane recovery work after Katrina report that their employers sometimes disappear without paying them, that they sometimes have to wait a long time for a complex web of contractors to pay them, that their paychecks are sometimes smaller than promised, or that those paychecks never arrive at all.”

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