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Liz Day is ProPublica's Director of Research. She previously worked in research for NBC Universal and as a Carnegie Fellow with the investigative unit at ABC News. She has written for Time Out New York, The Brooklyn Paper, the Discovery Channel and Gawker Media. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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Resources for Investigating Tax-Exempt Organizations

May 9, 3:28 p.m.

In addition to our Nonprofit Explorer interactive database, here are some resources for researching charities and other tax-exempt organizations.

Republicans and Dems Come Together — to Keep IRS From Competing with TurboTax

April 15, 1:34 p.m.

A recently introduced bill would ban the IRS from offering free tax prep software.

How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing

March 26, 5 a.m.

Intuit, producer of the top-selling tax software, has opposed letting the government do your taxes for free – even though it could save time and headaches for millions of filers.

Anatomy of a Cell Tower Death

June 6, 2012, 10:20 a.m.

A half dozen companies, including AT&T, played a role in the cell site project on which William “Bubba” Cotton died. So who controlled the work site? And who was responsible for the safety of subcontractors working on it?

After a Tower Climber Falls, Stand Down Called for on AT&T Projects

May 25, 2012, 3:43 p.m.

Following a worker’s non-fatal 100-foot fall from a Texas cell tower last week, one of AT&T’s construction management firms has instituted a stand down across several states, requiring that its subcontractors review safety practices.

Built for a Simpler Era, OSHA Struggles When Tower Climbers Die

May 24, 2012, 11:13 a.m.

Fifty men have died in accidents on cell sites since 2003, but federal workplace safety regulators have few tools and little will to impose consequences on the companies that count on their labor.

In Race For Better Cell Service, Men Who Climb Towers Pay With Their Lives

May 22, 2012, 9:52 a.m.

Corporate giants have outsourced the dangerous work of building and maintaining communications towers to tiny subcontracting companies. Over the last nine years, nearly 100 workers have died, 50 of them on cell sites.

Methodology: How We Calculated the Tower Industry Death Rate

May 21, 2012, 4:41 p.m.

How we calculated deaths per 100,000 workers for the tower industry using OSHA’s methodology.

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