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“We Are Essential”: Voices from the Front Lines of the COVID-19 Crisis

These are the voices of the people living, working and fighting through this crisis.

Maximillian Alvarez

Farm workers harvest zucchini on the Sam Accursio & Son's Farm on April 01, 2020 in Florida City, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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Maximillian Alvarez is editor-in-chief at the Real News Network and host of the podcast Working People, available at InThe​se​Times​.com. He is also the author of The Work of Living: Working People Talk About Their Lives and the Year the World Broke.

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