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Public records are the backbone of investigations

At sunrise, Jose Madrid, 11, begins picking red chilies in New Mexico. They will be sold for use in Paul Newman's salsa. At day's end, Jose counts his tickets and prepares to collect his pay: $30.52. His employment is a violation of federal law. The product of his labor becomes "hot goods."

Notes: This required that our reporters and photographers travel to farms and factories to become eyewitnesses to child labor. They never posed, saying forthrightly that they were an AP newsperson researching a story about farm labor or factory labor. If anyone pressed for more information, they said they were specifically interested in child labor. We went to churches, schools, social workers, unions and farmworker groups to point us to places where illegal child labor seemed likely. Our technique worked. After four months, we had witnessed more than 100 instances of illegal child labor involving products sold by 168 companies.

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