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Dealmakers Drop a Plan to Divert Millions from the Health Insurance of Retired Coal Miners
A bankruptcy plan for Patriot Coal Corp. would have thrown into question the medical coverage of 208 miners, wives and widows.
Bill Would Add Nurses, Physician Assistants to Pharma Payments Database
Drugmakers disclose their payments to doctors, dentists, even chiropractors. But spending on nurse practitioners and physician assistants is excluded. Legislation in the Senate would change that.
What Can Be Done Right Now to Fix the Legal System for Debt Collection
America’s out-of-date, unfair laws for collecting debts could be dramatically improved by these simple steps.
The Color of Debt
The black neighborhoods where collection suits hit hardest
How We Analyzed Racial Disparity in Debt Collection Lawsuits
An explanation of how we analyzed whether debt collection lawsuits disproportionately impact black communities.
Our Rebuttal to RAND’s Critique of Surgeon Scorecard
The think tank claims Scorecard’s methods aren’t reliable, but its commentary is undermined by supposition, conflicts of interest and a lack of evidence.
Verizon’s Zombie Cookie Gets New Life
Verizon is merging its cellphone tracking supercookie with AOL’s ad tracking network to match users’ online habits with their offline details.
An Arrest, a Suicide, a Year Later: The Lasting Tragedy of Kalief Browder
Podcast: New Yorker staff writer Jennifer Gonnerman discusses her reporting on a teenager who, after spending three years on Rikers Island without being convicted of a crime, took his own life.
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A Home for California's Most Troubled Children Comes Undone
How a home for troubled children came undone and what it means for California’s chance at reform.
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Patient Safety
Exploring Quality of Care in the U.S.
Our Rebuttal to RAND’s Critique of Surgeon Scorecard
The think tank claims Scorecard’s methods aren’t reliable, but its commentary is undermined by supposition, conflicts of interest and a lack of evidence.
Red Cross
How one of the country’s most venerated charities has failed disaster victims, broken promises and made dubious claims of success.
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Senator Wants Names of Red Cross Officials Who Didn’t Cooperate With Government Inquiry
Unforgiven
The Long Life of Debt
What Can Be Done Right Now to Fix the Legal System for Debt Collection
America’s out-of-date, unfair laws for collecting debts could be dramatically improved by these simple steps.
Killing the Colorado
The Truth Behind the Water Crisis in the West
The Colorado River is dying – the victim of legally sanctioned overuse, the relentless forces of urban growth, willful ignorance among policymakers and a misplaced confidence in human ingenuity. ProPublica investigates the policies that are putting this precious resource in peril.
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Amid Drought, California Experiments With Leasing Water Rights
Insult to Injury
America’s Vanishing Worker Protections
Driven by big business and insurers, states nationwide are dismantling workers’ compensation, slashing benefits to injured workers and making it more difficult for them to get care. Meanwhile employers are paying the lowest rates for workers’ comp insurance since the 1970s.
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