Jessica Priest is an engagement reporter for the ProPublica-Texas Tribune Investigative Initiative.
Perla Trevizo is a reporter for the ProPublica-Texas Tribune Investigative Initiative.
Homeland Security set aside the National Park Service Organic Act, the Endangered Species Act and dozens of other laws to authorize the work, and a court challenge to that waiver is pending.
Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.