Melissa Montalvo
Melissa covers childhood poverty in the central San Joaquin Valley for The Fresno Bee in partnership with CalMatters' California Divide project. She is a Report for America corps member. Montalvo, a bilingual reporter, covered the food and agriculture industries, Indigenous issues, and Mexican American culture as a freelancer, with bylines in Civil Eats, L.A. Taco, and more.
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A bill would establish a unit within Cal/OSHA to prosecute perpetrators who force or coerce vulnerable people into jobs with little or no pay.