Is it permissible to work in newspaper distribution in America?
Question

                I am a Muslim Arab university student in the United States. I am married and am working temporarily in the distribution centre of a local daily newspaper until I graduate and return to my country, because my family and I need the money urgently and there are few opportunities for halaal work in this country. Is it permissible to work in newspaper distribution?.
Praise be to Allah.
    Firstly: 

    The basic principle indicated by the evidence is that it is 
    not permissible to help in anything that is haraam, by selling, carrying, 
    distributing and so on, because Allaah says (interpretation of the 
    meaning): 

    “Help you one another in Al‑Birr and At‑Taqwa (virtue, 
    righteousness and piety); but do not help one another in sin and 
    transgression. And fear Allaah. Verily, Allaah is Severe in punishment”

    [al-Maa'idah 5:2]

    And there is evidence which shows that it is obligatory to 
    denounce evil, and the one who remains silent or approves of it is 
    criticized, so how about the one who helps with it! 

    Hence a number of scholars stated that it is haraam to sell 
    anything that helps one to commit sin. Ibn Qudaamah said: To sum up, selling 
    juice to one who it is thought will use it to make alcohol is haraam. Then 
    he said: The same ruling applies to everything that is intended for haraam 
    purposes, such as selling weapons to those who are at war with the Muslims, 
    or will use them for banditry or to create turmoil, or selling slave women 
    to be used as singing girls, or to be hired out for that purpose, or renting 
    one's house to be used for selling alcohol or to be used as a church or 
    Zoroastrian temple, and so on. This is haraam, and the contract is invalid. 
    End quote from al-Mughni (4/154). 

    It says in al-Mawsoo’ah al-Fiqhiyyah (9/213): The 
    majority are of the view that everything that is intended for haraam 
    purposes, and everything that will be used for sin, is haraam. It is 
    forbidden to sell anything which it is known that the purchaser intends to 
    use it for something that is not permissible. End quote. 

    Secondly: 

    It is well known that the newspapers in that country contain 
    some permissible things, such as news or articles or scientific information, 
    but they also contain many haraam things, such as indecent pictures and 
    advertisements for brothels, nightclubs, alcohol and gambling etc. These 
    haraam things are many and they are the purpose for which many people buy 
    those newspapers and so on, so it is not permissible to help in distributing 
    them. 

    You should remember that whoever gives up something for the 
    sake of Allaah, Allaah will compensate him with something better than that. 
    So seek halaal provision and you will find it by Allaah’s leave. 

    See also the answer to question no.
    89737. 

    May Allaah help us and you to do that which He loves and 
    which pleases Him. 

    And Allaah knows best.