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The Workers’ Compensation System: Worker Friend or Foe?

Lee Strunin, Leslie I. Boden | April, 2004

Background: The workers’ compensation system was designed to help injured workers who have substantial medical expenses and perhaps have lost a great deal of income. This study determines both similarities and differences in how workers experience their interactions with the workers’ compensation systems in Florida and Wisconsin. Methods: Ethnographic open-ended interviews with 204 workers from … Read More

Black Lung Program: Rising Rates, Troubled Funding

Leslie I. Boden | May, 2022

This Workers’ Compensation Issue Spotlight explains how the federal Black Lung Program provides benefits to workers with a variety of debilitating lung conditions resulting from work in coal mines. The Program is currently deeply in debt, and the proportion of miners developing black lung disease has increased over the past 25 years. This explores the forces driving increases in rates of black … Read More