Massachusetts job sites rife with workers using fake IDs

“The state has provided millions of dollars to contractors who employ undocumented workers on public projects, according to records reviewed by The Boston Globe.

A Globe analysis of nine recent public works projects showed that more than one third of 242 workers on weekly payrolls lists appeared to lack legitimate Social Security numbers.

On one of the payrolls, for masonry work at a dormitory project at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, 55 of the contractor’s 87 workers had bogus or questionable Social Security numbers.”

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