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A Political Boss Goes Down
by Mick Dumke When it comes to politics, there’s nowhere like Illinois. Throughout the election season, ProPublica Illinois reporter and political junkie Mick Dumke will analyze the state’s political...
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Cook County Assessor Joe Berrios’ Defeat Opens the Door to Reform
by Jason Grotto The ouster of Cook County Assessor Joseph Berrios in the Democratic primary Tuesday paves the way for reform at a government agency that has operated for decades with little oversight...
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How the Crowd Led Us to Investigate IBM
by Ariana Tobin and Peter Gosselin Today, we are reporting that over the past five years IBM has been removing older U.S. employees from their jobs, replacing some with younger, less experienced,...
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Eroding Protection Under the Law
by Peter Gosselin At the age of 50, the federal law that seeks to protect older American workers from age bias has been enfeebled by court decisions that have widened loopholes for employers and...
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Warren Buffett Recommends Investing in Index Funds — But Many of His...
by Allan Sloan Warren Buffett, the most successful investor of our time, is a huge fan of low-cost index funds — funds that replicate a market index rather than try to outperform it — as the way for...
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Seeing Journalism Make a Difference in Election Results
by Louise Kiernan I get pretty geeked out about going to vote. I like chatting with the neighbors in line at my polling place, which is a hallway in the middle school both my sons attended. I’m...
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Here’s One Issue Blue and Red States Agree On: Preventing Deaths of Expectant...
by Nina Martin and Robin Fields Alarmed that the U.S. is the most dangerous affluent country in which to give birth, state and local lawmakers around the country are adopting a flurry of bipartisan...
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What ProPublica Is Doing About Diversity in 2018
by Lena Groeger, Sisi Wei and Stephen Engelberg ProPublica is committed to increasing the diversity of our workplace as well as in the journalism community more broadly. We do our best to post an...
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Students! ProPublica Wants to Pay For You to Attend NAHJ, NABJ, AAJA, NAJA or...
by Lena Groeger We are proud to announce our third annual Diversity Scholarship program. ProPublica will be sponsoring need-based scholarships for 20 students to attend the 2018 conferences of the...
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Wilbur Ross Overruled Career Officials at Census Bureau to Add Citizenship...
by Justin Elliott Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross’ decision Monday to add a controversial question on citizenship to the 2020 census came in the face of opposition from career officials at the...
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Fair Housing Groups Sue Facebook for Allowing Discrimination in Housing Ads
by Julia Angwin and Ariana Tobin In February 2017, in response to a ProPublica investigation, Facebook pledged to crack down on efforts by advertisers of rental housing to discriminate against tenants...
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The Many Red Flags of Trump’s Partners in India — ‘Trump, Inc.’ Podcast
by Eric Umansky President Donald Trump does not like the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. “It’s a horrible law,” Trump has said. The FCPA makes it a crime for U.S. companies to bribe foreign officials,...
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A Partisan Combatant, a Remorseful Blogger: The Senate Staffer Behind the...
by Robert Faturechi Jason Foster, chief investigative counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, fits a classic Washington profile: A powerful, mostly unknown force at the center of some of the most...
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American Voting Machines Are Old and Vulnerable, But Who Will Pay for New Ones?
by Mac Schneider, Vox, and Kate Rabinowitz, special to ProPublica Congress has approved $380 million to fund state efforts to address the security of election systems ahead of the 2018 midterm...
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ProPublica’s ‘Too Broke for Bankruptcy’ Wins ASNE Award
ProPublica The American Society of News Editors announced “Too Broke for Bankruptcy” by Paul Kiel and Hannah Fresques as the winner of its 2018 Dori J. Maynard Award for Justice in Journalism. The...
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Trump’s Labor Department Eviscerates Workplace Safety Panels
by Rebecca Moss, The Santa Fe New Mexican Last October, Gregory Junemann received a brief email from an official at the U.S. Department of Labor effectively firing him and 15 others from a volunteer...
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How Overbuilt Levees Along the Upper Mississippi River Push Floods Onto Others
Al Shaw and Lisa Song
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Inside a Secretive Lobbying Effort to Deregulate Federal Levees
by Lisa Song, ProPublica, Patrick Michels, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, and Alex Heeb, The Telegraph of Alton, Illinois Nearly a year after record Midwestern floods killed at...
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John Bolton Skewed Intelligence, Say People Who Worked With Him
by Sebastian Rotella In early 2002, as the Bush administration hunted for Osama bin Laden, pressed its war in Afghanistan and set its sights on Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, John Bolton saw another looming...
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