VOA INVESTIGATIVE REPORT: A teenage African immigrant was hired off the streets of New York City for a few bucks in cash, and spent 18 months as an off-the-books worker for a sanitation company called Sanitation Salvage. Mouctar Diallo’s arduous side job came to a brutal end when he was run over by the trash truck he was working on. The men he’d been helping told police Diallo was a homeless man who’d come out of nowhere. An investigation by Voice of America and ProPublica depicts a workplace environment in which concerns about safety, as well as workers’ rights and compensation, are flouted despite years of complaints from workers to regulators.

ON THIS DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY On June 4, 1912, Massachusetts becomes the first state in the union to pass a minimum wage law. The measure applies only to women and children under the age of 18 and does not make much of an impact because it sets no standard wage. Instead, it establishes a panel to study the issue of low pay. (Workers at the King Philip Mill in Fall River, Massachusetts, in June 1916.)

What can we expect from the Singapore summit? The meeting in Singapore this month between the US and North Korea is back on, President Trump announced on Friday. The chief of VOA’s Korean Service weighs in on what we can expect from both sides in the lead-up to the summit between the American president and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

VIDEO: Americans can be touchy about touching. Experts even suggest that American society is a low-touch culture. Scientists say people need physical contact because it releases a hormone that reduces stress and anxiety. That need for human touch is now a marketable commodity and has given rise to a new occupation and therapy business — professional cuddling.

There’s a new kind of street music in Baltimore, Maryland. Young classical pianists wanted to find a way to share their craft — and the wonder of live music — with a wider audience. So they’re taking their talents on the road and performing concerts out of the back of a truck.

Ending the North Korean nuclear threat is a goal the US shares with South Korea.However, the two countries’ national security priorities could differ after a denuclearization deal is reached. Will Seoul and Washington be split on whether to reduce the US military presence in Korea?