Methodology for Workers’ Comp Benefits: How Much is a Limb Worth?
by Michael Grabell, Cynthia Cotts and Lena Groeger,For the interactive graphic Workers’ Comp Benefits: How Much is a Limb Worth? ProPublica researched laws for all 50 states, the District of Columbia...
View ArticleHow Much Is Your Arm Worth? Depends On Where You Work
by Michael GrabellProPublicaInsult to InjuryShare on FacebookShare on TwitterCommentDonateJustin Volz for ProPublicaHow Much Is Your Arm Worth? Depends On Where You WorkEach state determines its own...
View ArticleCuomo Obscura: Shady Moments During New York’s ‘Most Transparent’ Administration
by Leticia MirandaWhen New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo took office, he promised to operate "the most transparent" administration in history. The night of his victory, he said, "The people want a government...
View ArticleOSHA Report Echoes ProPublica and NPR’s Workers’ Comp Findings
by Michael GrabellNearly a year ago, ProPublica set out to investigate the extent of changes to America’s workers’ compensation system and the impact they were having on injured workers. Around the...
View ArticleIt Wasn’t Just the Beating That Was Shocking. It Was the Story Getting Out....
by Terry Parris Jr.It wasn't shocking that he was beaten. It was shocking that the story got out. The most violent encounters at Attica, a maximum-security prison in New York with a brutal history,...
View ArticlePodcast: Reporting on Workers’ Comp
by Nicole Collins Bronzan .player_box { display: none; } If you’re like most Americans, you probably don’t think about the ins and outs of workers’ comp -- until you get injured on the job. Then,...
View ArticleWashington Legislature Moves to Limit Schools Pinning Down and Isolating Kids
by Annie WaldmanA bill that would limit Washington public schools restraining or isolating students is working its way through the state Legislature, making it at least the fourth state to move to...
View ArticleA Stress Test For The New York Fed
by Jake BernsteinLately, a debate has erupted among Congress, bankers and the media about whether the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has accumulated too much power since the financial crisis and...
View ArticleEchoes of Hillary’s Past as Emails Put Her on Defensive
by Jeff GerthThis story was co-published with Politico Magazine and has been adapted and excerpted from the book “Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton,” by Jeff Gerth and Don Van...
View ArticleEmails Reveal Lobbyist Had Undisclosed Role In Cuomo Financial Crisis...
by Justin ElliottThe Albany Times Union co-published a version of this story.Previously undisclosed emails by a mortgage industry lobbyist doubling as a consultant for then Attorney General Andrew...
View ArticleFed Inspector General Reopens Leak Investigation
by Jake BernsteinThe Federal Reserve Board’s inspector general has reopened an investigation into a two-year-old leak of confidential monetary information amid rising Congressional scrutiny into how...
View ArticleUnion Buried Evidence of Firestone Support of Warlord After Labor Deal
by Jonathan Jones, special to ProPublica, and T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, In 1996, Firestone, one of the world's largest tire-makers, was locked in a grueling labor dispute with the United...
View ArticleHillary Clinton’s Top Five Clashes Over Secrecy
by Jeff GerthBack in April of 2007, when she was campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination for the first time, then-Senator Hillary Clinton lashed out at the secrecy of the George W. Bush...
View ArticleEmail Escapades MuckReads Edition: Hillary is Just the Latest Politician to...
by Leticia MirandaFormer Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been on the defensive ever since the New York Times first reported that she used a private email account for government business. In...
View ArticleMuckReads Podcast: Inside Attica with Tom Robbins
by Nicole Collins Bronzan .player_box { display: none; } The trouble with reporting on prisons is that most of the people you need to talk to don’t want to talk, for one reason or another. As veteran...
View ArticleCalifornia Announces Audit of Insurance Company That Took Away Home Health Aide
by Michael Grabell, ProPublica, and Howard Berkes, NPR Updated (Mar. 16, 2015): This story was updated to include statements from the California labor department’s Division of Workers’ Compensation and...
View ArticleMuckReads Podcast: Tom Robbins on His ‘Perry Mason Moment’
by Minhee Cho .player_box { display: none; }Years before his reporting on egregious abuse at Attica Correctional Facility landed on the front page of the New York Times, investigative reporter Tom...
View ArticleInsurance Information Institute Challenges Our Workers’ Comp Investigation....
by Michael Grabell, ProPublica, and Howard Berkes, NPR Last Thursday, the Insurance Information Institute sent ProPublica and NPR a letter challenging our investigation into workers’ compensation...
View ArticleSuper PAC Men: How Political Consultants Took a Texas Oilman on a Wild Ride
by Robert FaturechiThis story was co-published with the Daily Beast and the Houston Chronicle.Throughout the booms and busts of his Fort Worth oil empire and during his brother’s notorious murder...
View ArticleDespite Wave of Data Breaches, Official Says Patient Privacy Isn’t Dead
by Charles OrnsteinThis story was co-published with NPR’s Shots blog.It’s hard to keep track of even the biggest health data breaches, given how frequently they seem to be happening. Just Tuesday,...
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