April 2014 Archive
A Note to Our Readers on 'Segregation Now'
'Segregation Now' focuses on the Tuscaloosa, Ala., city school district, and its fleeting experience with the challenges and virtues of integration. Here's why we decided to offer it to our readers in discrete chapters over three days.
Video: Saving Central
Meet Principal Clarence Sutton Jr. as he fights to save his students from the effects of resegregation.
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Sixty years after the Supreme Court declared an end to “separate but equal” education, many Southern school districts have moved back in time, isolating poor black and Latino students in segregated schools. ProPublica investigates Tuscaloosa’s city schools, which are among the most rapidly resegregating in the country.
Share Your Six Words on Race and Education in America
Sixty years after the Supreme Court declared an end to “separate but equal” education, many Southern school districts have moved back in time, isolating poor black and Latino students in segregated schools. ProPublica investigates Tuscaloosa’s city schools, which are among the most rapidly resegregating in the country.
Big Revamp of Pentagon's Troubled Mission to Find Missing Soldiers Looks a Lot Like Old Revamp
Without change of leadership throughout, meaningful change could be elusive, critics say.
Even After Doctors Are Sanctioned or Arrested, Medicare Keeps Paying
A ProPublica analysis of recently released data shows that dozens of physicians who received payments from Medicare in 2012 had been kicked out of Medicaid, charged with fraud, or settled claims of overbilling Medicare itself.
The U.S. Government: Paying to Undermine Internet Security, Not to Fix It
One lesson of the Heartbleed bug is that the U.S. needs to stop running Internet security like a Wikipedia volunteer project.
Introducing Landline and Stateline: Two Tools For Quick Vector Maps in your Browser
Today we're releasing code to make it easier for newsrooms to produce maps quickly.
TurboTax Maker Linked to 'Grassroots' Campaign Against Free, Simple Tax Filing
Intuit and its allies are continuing to work against proposals for what’s known as return-free filing.
Shake-Up Inside Forensic Credentialing Org
The nation's largest forensic expert college will sell its forensic accounting division, following a series of investigations by ProPublica and Frontline.
Long After Sandy, Red Cross Post-Storm Spending Still a Black Box
Donors gave $312 million after the storm, but it’s not clear how exactly the money was spent.
What Newly Released Docs Tell Us About the IRS and How It Handles Dark Money Groups
Here are five takeaways ProPublica found from the documents released Wednesday by a House committee.
The Department of Labor’s Internships Investigations
In 2010, the Labor Department issued a new fact sheet clarifying when an intern needs to be paid under federal labor law. We collected the case files for all the internship investigations the Labor Department concluded in the three years after issuing new regulations.
How the Labor Department Has Let Companies Off the Hook for Unpaid Internships
Four years after warning for-profit companies about unpaid internships, the agency has investigated relatively few employers for wage violations.
