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Former Lobbyist With For-Profit Colleges Quits Education Department
by Annie Waldman A former lobbyist for an association of for-profit colleges resigned last Friday from the Department of Education, where he had worked for about a month. As ProPublica reported last...
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Connecticut Lawmaker to Consider Legislation to Improve Domestic Violence...
by Sarah Smith A Connecticut lawmaker today is set to convene a panel of experts and law enforcement officials to explore ways of reducing the state’s rate of dual arrests in cases of domestic...
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We Fact-Checked Lawmakers’ Letters to Constituents on Health Care
by Charles Ornstein This story was co-published with Kaiser Health News, Stat and Vox. Updated (Mar. 22, 2017): This story was updated to include a response from the office of Rep. Derek Kilmer,...
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Is It Age Discrimination If You Don’t Know You’re Being Discriminated Against?
by Peter Gosselin For the past half century, federal law has banned employers from discriminating against people based on their age. But since the early 1990s, corporate lawyers and conservative...
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On Health Reform, Democrats and Republicans Don’t Speak the Same Language
by Charles Ornstein and Derek Willis Turns out that Democrats have more to say than Republicans when it comes to legislation that would repeal major parts of the Affordable Care Act, better known as...
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A 2-for-1 for Racists: Post Hateful Fliers, and Revel in the News Coverage
by Ken Schwencke The Houston man laid out the details of his triumphant plan during a podcast last July: He told listeners that he had wanted to paste white nationalist fliers across the city’s...
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Heritage Foundation Alum Critical of Transgender Rights to Lead HHS Civil...
by Charles Ornstein The Trump administration has quietly appointed a Heritage Foundation staffer who has railed against civil rights protections for transgender patients as director of the federal...
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How We Analyzed New York State Subsidies
by Masako Melissa Hirsch, Cezary Podkul and Charlotte Keith, For this news app, ProPublica, Investigative Post and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism combined data from 12 of New...
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Firms Cited for Safety Violations Still Reap State Subsidies
by Sean Kevin Campbell, Investigative Post, This story was co-published with Investigative Post. Craig Bernier had only been bagging grain at Harbor Point Minerals in Utica for a few months when the...
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New York State Subsidy Tracker
by Masako Melissa Hirsch, Cezary Podkul, Sisi Wei and Lena Groeger, We’re tracking the state’s growing portfolio of business subsidies.
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Corning’s Glass Brimming With Taxpayer Subsidies
by Charlotte Keith and Masako Melissa Hirsch, Investigative Post, This story was co-published with Investigative Post. Rita McCarthy could finally relax. After months of speculation and negotiation,...
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Bellwether Behavioral Health Is Controversial Group Home Operator AdvoServ —...
by Heather Vogell A for-profit company that runs group homes for the developmentally and intellectually disabled has changed its name from AdvoServ to Bellwether Behavioral Health, following...
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Democratic Senators Ask Jeff Sessions to Explain Preet Bharara Firing
by Robert Faturechi Attorney General Jeff Sessions should explain whether the firing of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara had anything to do with Bharara’s reported probe into stock trades by Health and...
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Camelot Under Siege
by Sarah Carr, Zoë Kirsch, Francesca Berardi and Stephen Smiley, The Teacher Project, This story was co-published with Slate. Officials in three cities are rethinking their relationship with...
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Students! ProPublica Wants to Pay For You to Attend NAHJ, NABJ, AAJA or NAJA
by Lena Groeger We are proud to announce that for the second year in a row, ProPublica is sponsoring need-based scholarships to attend the conferences of the National Association of Hispanic...
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New York Parents in Custody Fights Lack Right to See Expert Reports
by Joaquin Sapien New York State Assembly Bill 1533 does not seem to ask for terribly much: The proposed legislation would grant parents in custody proceedings the legal right to see the court-ordered...
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How the Trump Administration Responds to Democrats’ Demands for Information:...
by Justin Elliott When billionaire investor Wilbur Ross was going through the confirmation process to become President Trump’s commerce secretary, Senate Democrats wanted answers about Ross’ role as...
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Trump’s ‘Buy American’ Pledge May Be At Risk With His Border Wall
by T. Christian Miller In one of his first tweets as president, here’s how Donald Trump promised to spend taxpayer dollars: “We will follow two simple rules: BUY AMERICAN & HIRE AMERICAN!” he...
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Our Military Waste Game Suddenly Seems Prophetic
by Megan Rose The most jaw-dropping element of President Donald Trump’s proposed budget for 2018 is still shaking the foundations of Washington. The Pentagon, the most profligate agency in all the...
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As Seas Around Mar-a-Lago Rise, Trump’s Cuts Could Damage Local Climate Work
by Lisa Song Climate change isn’t a nebulous threat for Palm Beach County, Florida, where sea creatures swim through driveways during seasonal king tides that flood low-lying streets. For years, the...
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