Andrea Hsu
Andrea Hsu is NPR's labor and workplace correspondent.
Hsu first joined NPR in 2002 and spent nearly two decades as a producer for All Things Considered. Through interviews and in-depth series, she's covered topics ranging from America's to emerging research at the intersection of . She led the award-winning NPR team that happened to be in Sichuan Province, China, when struck in 2008. In the coronavirus pandemic, she reported a series of stories on the , capturing the angst that women and especially mothers were experiencing across the country, alone. Hsu came to NPR via National Geographic, the BBC, and the long-shuttered Jumping Cow Coffee House.
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The Trump administration's decision to end Temporary Protected Status for people from a number of countries has rattled health care workers who tend to the sick and elderly.
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Trump campaigned on helping American workers through his immigration policies. Now that he's revoked work authorization for thousands of immigrants, those left behind are feeling taxed by their absence. -
Under President Trump's immigration policies, thousands of workers have lost legal status and authorization to work. Those who remain on the job are feeling their absence.
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The Trump administration canceled humanitarian parole for more than a million immigrants who had entered the country lawfully. In turn, companies have terminated those no longer eligible to work.
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Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson has called his agency's rule banning noncompetes unconstitutional. Still, he says protecting workers against noncompetes remains a priority.
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The Trump administration can move ahead, for now, with plans to lay off hundreds of thousands of federal workers following a U.S. Supreme Court decision on Tuesday.
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The Trump administration's plans to convert some 50,000 civil servants into at-will employees has some worried that essential government functions will be politicized. -
President Trump is changing how the government hires and fires workers. His critics warn he's politicizing the workforce, with negative consequences for the American people.
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As part of Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill," the House voted to end a retirement supplement aimed at helping federal employees who retire before they're 62. -
President Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" making its way through Congress includes a significant cut to federal employees' retirement benefits.
