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Patient Guide
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Treatment Tracker
by Lena Groeger , Ryann Grochowski Jones and Charles Ornstein We’ve updated our database of Medicare’s payments to individual doctors and other health professionals serving the 49 million seniors and...
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Why 5 Elementary Schools Had More Violence Than 17 High Schools In Same...
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How to Investigate Workers’ Comp In Your State
by Michael Grabell With income inequality and economic fairness at the center of national discussion, workers' compensation provides the perfect lens for examining how the social compact has changed....
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ProPublica Partners With Beacon to Promote Workers’ Comp Reporting
by Amanda Zamora Today, ProPublica is teaming up with the journalism crowdfunding site Beacon to encourage more coverage of workers' comp across the country. Nearly a century after most states...
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How Yelp is Evolving in the Era of Big Data
by Cynthia Gordy .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} Yelp may be best known for its restaurant and nightclub reviews, but the site’s seeds were...
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‘No Place for a Kid to Go’
by Joaquin Sapien ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate ‘No Place for a Kid to Go’ In Long Beach, California, a group home for troubled children sinks into crisis. by Joaquin...
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The Best Defense Is Good Offense: DOJ Challenges Local Public Defense Programs
by Lauren Kirchner Shortly before Attorney General Eric Holder announced his resignation last September, he told an interviewer: “Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her...
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Activists Pursue Private Abortion Details Using Public Records Laws
by Charles Ornstein This story was co-published with the Washington Post. A few years back, Jonathan Bloedow filed a series of requests under Washington state’s Public Records Act asking for details...
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Homeschooling Regulations by State
by Jessica Huseman, special to ProPublica, and Lena Groeger, ProPublica, Homeschooling has been legal throughout the United States for about 25 years, but regulations vary dramatically across the...
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Small Group Goes to Great Lengths to Block Homeschooling Regulation
by Jessica Huseman for ProPublica, This story was co-published with Slate. In the fall of 2003, police in New Jersey received a call from a concerned neighbor who’d found a boy rummaging in her...
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Foes Dive for Discarded Records in Abortion Clinic Dumpsters
by Charles Ornstein This story was co-published with NPR's Shots blog. The scene in front of abortion clinics is often tense, with clinic workers escorting patients past activists waving signs and...
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Top Tobacco Bond Banker Departs Barclays
by Cezary Podkul The go-to dealmaker in the market for tobacco bonds is gone from her post – a surprise departure that raises questions about the future direction of a once-burgeoning corner of Wall...
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10 Years Later, People Are Still Living in Toxic FEMA Trailers (MuckReads...
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The Human Reasons Why Athletes Who Dope Get Away With It
by David Epstein, ProPublica, and Michael J. Joyner, special to ProPublica, Last week, we examined reasons why the very nature of drug testing technology — which cannot eliminate false positives and...
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The Tiger Mom Tax: Asians Are Nearly Twice as Likely to Get a Higher Price...
by Julia Angwin, Surya Mattu and Jeff Larson, Read our methodology. Every year, thousands of high school students get ready for the SAT by using The Princeton Review’s test preparation services. But...
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Free Food and Networking: Apply For Our Diversity Mentorship Program at ONA
by Sisi Wei and Ryann Grochowski Jones ProPublica and Mashable are proud to announce our first-ever Diversity Mentorship Program at the Online News Association conference in Los Angeles this year. You...
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‘Dark Money’ Debate: Two Views on Whether the Term is Fair Game
by Cynthia Gordy .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} As the rules around campaign finance have changed, so has our vocabulary. Yet while the term...
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When Big Data Becomes Bad Data
by Lauren Kirchner A recent ProPublica analysis of The Princeton Review’s prices for online SAT tutoring shows that customers in areas with a high density of Asian residents are often charged more....
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Taxpayers Fund Yet Another Unneeded Building in Afghanistan
by Megan McCloskey The beat goes on. For the third time in four months, the watchdog for spending on the war in Afghanistan has released a report that shows the U.S. military commissioned a...
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