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State Laws Favor Benefits for Firefighters With Cancer. Cities and Counties Keep Denying Them.

This story was reported by Public Health Watch and is being co-published by Investigative Reporting Workshop and Mother Jones. Even as wildfires intensify each year, the people who risk their lives to fight them are often denied workers’ compensation for what firefighters contend are job-related cancers. This is happening even though all 50 states have laws or […]

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