We are very proud to award this month’s Sidney Award to Jay Root of the Texas Tribune for his series, Hurting for Work, an expose of the threadbare workers’ compensation system in Texas. Did you know that any employer can opt out of the Texas workers’ comp program and substitute unregulated private insurance or nothing at all? Read more about the broken system in my Backstory interview with Jay Root. 

[Photo credit: Texas State Capitol: House of Representatives, Texas State Library, Creative Commons.]