Wage Theft

Labor historian Wes Harris points to the extremely well-documented history of child labor in the mines of West Virginia. In 2017, one study found that workers in 10 US states had lost a combined $8 billion per year to wage theft from their employees. The total value of all property theft nationwide on an annual basis is about $16 billion. It's almost certainly a larger problem than all other theft combined in the United States, but it's virtually never prosecuted.