and by the frontline journalism fund, supporting investigative reporting and enterprise journalism. additional funding for this program is provided by the pulitzer center and the fledgling fund. >> narrator: this is pakistan. we traveled here to meet a young woman who had a story to tell. >> narrator: after her escape, kainat says she told her family about what had happened during those three days. >> narrator: the first time we met kainat, we found her family surrounding her, defying local traditions. (horns honking) >> narrator: from the start, there was another side to the story. >> narrator: this is his nephew. he owns this shop. kainat says she was raped here by him and the other men. >> narrator: besides shaikh, kainat accused three other men of the rape. all of them denied the crime. a month after kainat alleged that she was raped, the family fled to karachi, fearing for their lives. by then, kainat's story had started to gain major media attention. a woman's organization, war against rape, had decided to help her. >> sarah zaman: these tribal councils, which are called jirgas

and by the frontline journalism fund, with grants from jon and jo ann hagler on behalf of the jon l. hagler foundation. and scott nathan and laura debonis. >> lowell bergman: there are over a half-million women working in the fields of america. most are undocumented immigrants. this is a story about the price many women pay to keep those jobs, and to keep food on our tables. >> bergman: they have lived in the shadows, unheard and unseen. until now. >> bergman: for the past year, we've been investigating the sexual abuse of female farm workers. it's a story that has gone virtually unreported, in part because women simply feared to speak out. maricruz ladino was among the first to agree to appear on camera. >> bergman: maricruz is not alone. female farm workers have been abused for generations. >> i became aware of it as a young woman, and my mother would never let me work in the fields. you cannot close your eyes and your ears to us any longer. >> bergman: dolores huerta was one of the founders of the united farm workers, with cesar chavez. >> harassment was part of the job, so to spe

and by the frontline journalism fund, supporting investigative reporting and enterprise journalism. >> increasingly, americans in money trouble in this bad economy are borrowing from their 401(k)s... >> the number of workers borrowing from their accounts has reached a ten-year high... >> a record number of workers now raiding their 401(k)s... >> martin smith: let's begin with one simple fact: america is facing a retirement crisis, and the statistics are grim. half of all americans say they can't afford to save for retirement. one third have next to no retirement savings at all. >> i just don't know if i'll be able to save that much. god willing, social security will still be there. for someone like me, it'll probably be enough to keep me out of poverty. >> the retirement fund gets sliced and diced and divvied up for wall street to play with... >> i'm just going to have to somehow find a way to save 10% of my salary or 15% of my salary, which is probably what i need to actually be saving to have any shot of retiring, you know, not on food stamps. yeah, i don't know. hope to be able to

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