Erin Siegal
Reporter, Fronteras DeskErin Siegal is part of the Fronteras Desk reporting team, based in San Diego at KPBS. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, a Soros Justice Fellow, and a Redux Pictures photographer. She was a 2008-2009 fellow at the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Erin is the author of the award-winning book Finding Fernanda, (Beacon Press 2012), which examines organized crime and child trafficking in international adoption between Guatemala and the U.S. Previously, she wrote a column on public records and government accountability for the Columbia Journalism Review, "The FOIA Watchdog." She's contributed to various media outlets, including Univision, the New York Times, Time, Reuters, Newsweek, O Magazine, Businessweek, Rolling Stone, and more. She lives in Tijuana, Mexico. When she's not eating tacos or working, Erin can be found along the border at Rancho Los Amigos, riding horses and smoking cigars with her favorite vaqueros.
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Investors are reacting to Trump's latest plans to impose a wide range of tariffs. A weaker-than-expected jobs report magnified concerns about how these import taxes would impact the economy. -
We’ve all been there: a family gathering, an outing with friends — and then politics comes up. Cuts to the safety net. Guns. Abortion. Climate change. Fault lines run deep. So do emotions. -
Employees across multiple divisions agree: They can't imagine how the department will fulfill its legal obligations with roughly half its staff gone. -
Trump called for the firing of the Labor statistics official after data earlier showed employers added just 73,000 jobs in July, while job gains for the previous two months were largely erased. -
Charities usually like to talk to the public about their good works. In the wake of the Trump aid cuts, there's a new approach: "anticipatory silence." It's controversial. -
A panel organized by the FDA cast doubts on the safety of antidepressants during pregnancy — drawing ire from doctors who say SSRIs are a crucial treatment option for women with perinatal depression.
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