The Story Behind ‘Lunch Atop A Skyscraper

“Lunch Atop A Skyscraper” captured 11 workers lunching amid construction of New York’s Rockefeller Center on September 20, 1932 — but there’s much more to the story.

For nearly a century, the iconic photograph “Lunch Atop A Skyscraper” has been uniquely evocative of everything from New York City to the Great Depression to America itself. The photo features 11 construction workers casually having lunch while dangling 850 feet above the Big Apple one September day in 1932. But while its imagery is legendary, few know the remarkable story behind it.

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Sturgis, Michigan Has 10,000 Residents


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Sturgis, Michigan has 10,000 residents. One company based there billed $826 million in Medicaid personal care services between 2018 and 2024.

For context: to bill $826 million in 15-minute increments at Medicaid rates, you would need to document and submit claims for a number of service hours that, divided by the local population, implies every man, woman, and child in Sturgis received personal care assistance for roughly 2.3 hours per day, every day, for six years.

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Texas Penal Code §32.45 — Misapplication of Fiduciary Property

A person commits an offense if he intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly misapplies property he holds as a fiduciary or property of a financial institution in a manner that involves substantial risk of loss to the owner of the property or to a person for whose benefit the property is held.

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