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The Fuller Project In her last weeks working the freight shift at the local J.C. Penney store, Alexandra Orozco took out her phone and hit record. The 22-year-old shot videos as she and her co-workers slid down a metal shoot (technically meant for empty boxes) in the store room, their heads falling back laughing, and posted them on TikTok. Another, uploaded on 13th October, shows the giant black-and-red “Everything Must go!” posters hanging from ceiling to floor, and an eerily half-empty ba...

The Fuller Project In her last weeks working the freight shift at the local J.C. Penney store, Alexandra Orozco took out her phone and hit record. The 22-year-old shot a video of the giant black-and-red ‘Everything Must go!” posters, and posted it on TikTok in October. “Slowing losing my job,” she wrote below, days before the store in Delano, California shut for good, one of 156 J.C. Penneys across the United States to close since June of this year. Since being laid off, she’s appli...

Pandemic crushes global supply chains, workers at both ends by Louise Donovan/The Fuller Project, The Associated Press Posted Dec 22, 2020 10:09 am EDT Last Updated Dec 22, 2020 at 10:14 am EDT Alexandra Orozco stands for a portrait outside of the closed J.C. Penney where she was laid off from, in Delano, Calif., on Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020. Orozco began working part-time at the department store when she was 18, and in nearly four years rose through the ranks from cashier to freight team associate....

By Louise Donovan, The Fuller Project In her last weeks working the freight shift at the local J.C. Penney store, Alexandra Orozco took out her phone and hit record. The 22-year-old shot a video of the giant black-and-red ‘Everything Must go!” posters, and posted it on TikTok in October. “Slowly losing my job,” she wrote below, days before the store in Delano, California, shut for good, one of 156 J.C. Penneys across the United States to close since June of this year. Since being laid o...

And its taking down workers at both ends. Dec 22nd, 2020 Louise Donovan, The Fuller Project Alexandra Orozco stands for a portrait outside of the closed J.C. Penney where she was laid off from, in Delano, Calif., on Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020. Orozco began working part-time at the department store when she was 18, and in nearly four years rose through the ranks from cashier to freight team associate. Madeline Tolle/The Fuller Project via AP In her last weeks working the freight shift at the local J.C...

(Illustration by Ruramai Musikewa for The Fuller Project) With the economic fallout of COVID-19 contributing to skyrocketing rates of teenage pregnancy in Zimbabwe, a new law has been ushered in to protect the education of the young women affected.  This story was published by the The Fuller Project, a global nonprofit newsroom reporting on issues that affect women. Words by Farai Shawn Matiashe  Cassey Simbanai was set to take her final year examinations this December. The 17-year-old Zim...

Friday briefing: Britain faces harsh winter measures Martin Farrer Top story: NHS running out of beds, figures show © Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images An electronic warning sign showing the upgraded tier-3 coronavirus alert level in central London. Morning everyone. I’m Martin Farrer and these are the top stories today. Millions of people throughout the UK face living under the strictest coronavirus restrictions well into the new year as ministers scramble to...