127,000 workers in the state have been victims of wage theft.

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New York Workers Are Waiting on $79 Million in Back Wages <[link removed]> The New York State Department of Labor still needs to recover 63% of stolen wages during a five-year period analyzed by ProPublica and Documented. The problem? An understaffed agency with poor tools for recovering wages and enforcing judgments. by Marcus Baram, Documented, with data analysis by Agnel Philip, ProPublica, and Lam Thuy Vo, special to ProPublica

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127,000 New York Workers Have Been Victims of Wage Theft <[link removed]> An analysis of federal and state databases sheds new light on the prevalence and scale of wage theft in New York restaurants and other industries, placing the total wages stolen in one five-year period at more than $203 million. by Max Siegelbaum, Documented, with data analysis by Agnel Philip, ProPublica, and Lam Thuy Vo, special to ProPublica <[link removed]>

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