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No title (id: 14029)
U.S. News & World Report investigates the factors behind the nation's acute shortage of affordable housing. Market forces have combined with federal budget pressures and a history of government mismanagement to create an unparalleled shortage of affordable housing. (Nov. 11, 1996)
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No title (id: 14024)
Business Week investigates shortages in the pool of responsible, unskilled, low-wage laborers. In order to keep good low-wage earners, employers must now spend more time and money counseling employees confronting family problems, juggling workers' shifts to accommodate erratic child care, or lending workers money so that they can pay pressing bills. (Nov. 11, 1996)
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No title (id: 14020)
The American Lawyer investigates the case of Lloyd Schlup, a Missouri prisoner on death row for the stabbing murder of a fellow inmate. Even though several witnesses insist another man committed the murder and prison cameras suggest it would have been virtually impossible for Schlup to be at the scene of the crime at the time of the murder, the Supreme Court is expected to allow the execution to proceed. Supreme Court officials are becoming increasingly hostile to retrying cases based upon new evidence - even if that means the death of wrongly-convicted prisoners. (Dec. 1994)
Tags: Taylor He didn't do it Courts Judges Killing Jail Prison 11 pgs.
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No title (id: 14017)
Business Week reveals that organized crime has made shocking inroads into the small-cap stock market. The mob has established a network of stock promoters, securities dealers, and "boiler rooms" that sell stocks nationwide through hard-sell cold-calling. Wall street has become so lucrative for the Mob that it is allegedly a major source of income for high-level members of organized crime. (Dec. 16, 1996)
Tags: Weiss The Mob on Wall Street Investments Brokerage firms Intimidation 11 pgs.
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No title (id: 13993)
The Mobile Register investigates the death of John Daniel "Little Man" Powell Jr., a toddler beaten so savagely that his head swelled up with blood. The Register's investigation into the child's last days unraveled the larger story of a state agency that had failed him, and other abused children, repeatedly and shamefully. (June 3, July 14; August 10, 11, 25, 29; September 7, 8; October 20, 1996)
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No title (id: 13989)
The Boston Globe investigates America's post-cold war arms industry: how the aggressive marketing of U.S. made weapons to the world boosts corporate profits at the expense of jobs at home and threatens global security. (February 11, 1996)
Tags: Sennot Armed for profit: the selling of us weapons 61 pgs.
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No title (id: 13986)
The Wall Street Journal uncovers the foreign connections in campaign contributions, unraveling the mystery of the Indonesian's Lippo empire and its one million dollars in contributions to the Democratic campaign. (October 8 - 11, 14, 16, 17, 21, 22, 1996)
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Flight Into Detention
The New York Times investigates Fauyiza Kasinga, a woman who fled her African village to escape ritual circumcision only to be locked up for two years in detention centers by the Immigration Service. The series pieces together the intimate family dynamics of a complicated African clan to trace the trajectory of one refugee's exile, and to show the very private decisions that make up the history of a woman who has become a public American immigrant. (April 15 - Sept. 11, 1996)
Tags: Dugger Flight into detention Immigration and Naturalization Service INS 19 pgs.
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Trickledown Health Care
SF Weekly investigates the inadequacies of the California Health Department. Hospitals and nursing homes call it "subacute care", but for some patients, it's just a death sentence. (Sept. 11, 1996)
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No title (id: 13976)
The New York Times looks at how stubborn poverty and a dwindling supply of affordable housing have left tens, perhaps hundreds, of thousands of New Yorkers living in squalid, illegal and often dangerous conditions. (Oct. 6-11,1996)
Tags: Sontag Lii Bruni Alvarez et al Barely four walls Tenants Landlords Renting 41 pgs.