For more than a month, essential workers have braved the pandemic conditions — from hospital frontlines to grocery stores. There’s increasing pressure to give those employees better working conditions and better pay while they risk their health to be on the job.
Senior Correspondent David Cruz spoke to Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman about the three measures she’s proposing to support essential workers.
Senior Correspondent David Cruz is the moderator of Chat Box and Reporters Roundtable. He's been a member of the NJ Spotlight News team since 2011 and has been covering New Jersey's biggest stories for almost 30 years. He's been a reporter and moderator of public affairs programs on television, radio and digital platforms for WBGO and WNYC radio and is the former editor in chief of the Hudson Reporter Newspaper group.