April 2017 Archive
Former Director of Anti-Immigration Group Set to Be Named Ombudsman at U.S. Immigration Agency
As FAIR official, Julie Kirchner advocated harsh restrictions on immigrants. Now her job is to provide them assistance.
Independent Monitor Faults New York State for Delays in Aiding Mentally Ill
A court-ordered plan to move residents from notorious group homes produces backlogs and concern over state’s commitment to help thousands of mentally ill.
Help Us Find the Missing White House Financial Disclosures. We Need Names
One month ago, the White House said they would make about 180 of its staffers’ financial disclosures public. We’re asking for your help to find the missing forms.
ProPublica Is Hiring a Senior Engagement Fellow
We are hiring a senior engagement fellow to work on investigative projects, building community and growing the ProPublica audience.
America’s Other Drug Problem
Every year nursing homes nationwide flush, burn or throw out tons of valuable prescription drugs. Iowa collects them and gives them to needy patients for free. Most other states don’t.
Trump Is Finally Almost Done Resigning From His Businesses
President Trump has nearly finished handing over management of his businesses — nearly 100 days after he promised to do so.
Lawmakers Seek Stronger Monitoring of Racial Disparities in Car Insurance Premiums
In response to our report that minority neighborhoods pay higher premiums than white areas with the same risk, six members of Congress and two Illinois state senators are pushing for closer scrutiny of insurance practices.
ProPublica Is Hiring a Business Development Intern
ProPublica is looking for a creative, entrepreneurial intern to join our growing business team.
New York Landlords Exploit Loophole to Hike Rents Despite Freeze
Thanks to a 2003 state law, owners of rent-stabilized apartments can arbitrarily boost rents to a legal maximum that they set themselves. The tactic fosters gentrification, eviction and homelessness.
We’re Investigating Hate Across the U.S. There’s No Shortage of Work.
The coalition of newsrooms behind “Documenting Hate” has recorded a wide variety of violence in all corners of the country.
ProPublica Is Hiring a Data Science Adviser
ProPublica is seeking an experienced statistician or data scientist to advise us on our complex data-journalism projects.
ProPublica Is Hiring News Apps Developers (One Contract, One Permanent)
ProPublica is seeking one contract and one permanent software developer/journalist to join its award-winning news applications team.
ProPublica is hiring a data editor
ProPublica is looking for a data editor with the vision and skills to guide, edit and elevate top-notch, data-based projects that spur change.
ProPublica Is Hiring News Apps Developers for Politics (Contract)
ProPublica is seeking journalist-developers to work on unifying and enhancing our interactive databases (we call them “news applications”) that cover politics and the Congress. These are contract positions that begin immediately and run until the end of 2017.
ProPublica is hiring an ETL developer (contract)
ProPublica is seeking a data expert and programmer to implement an Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) workflow that will help us maintain some of our most important online databases and to build an infrastructure to make maintaining our work easier forever.
ProPublica is hiring a data editor
ProPublica is looking for a data editor with the vision and skills to guide, edit and elevate top-notch, data-based projects that spur change.
ProPublica Is Hiring a Data Fellow
ProPublica is seeking a data fellow to help create in-depth, data-driven investigations.
Remember Those Temporary Officials Trump Quietly Installed? Some Are Now Permanent Employees.
In January, the Trump administration quietly dispatched more than 400 temporary employees across the federal government. Now dozens of them are getting permanent jobs.
