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7 1/2 Days
City Limits explores mental health services available for low-income people. Findings showed that patients no longer languish for lengthy periods in state psychiatric centers, but languish for 72 hour periods in psychiatric emergency rooms, or for weeks in the acute wards of general hospitals.
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Lord of His Ward
The story discloses the inner workings of power in Chicago politics and government. It examines the political power of ward bosses, in this case the power of Ald. Richard F. Mell. The story explains an entire political system.
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Disabling the System
The WJAR investigation team looks at how firefighters and police are collecting disability pensions while holding an outside job, some collecting three pensions for one injury. Through undercover video, confrontational interviews, state pension records, the I-Team shows millions of people where their tax dollars are going.
Tags: TAPE TRANSCRIPT fraud city employees municipal workers hidden camera
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White Neighborhood Parks Worth More Need More Repairs
A computer-assisted investigation by the Chicago Reporter finds that conditions of parks in the city's white wards were better, but had more costly repairs because more structures were built in those parks. The investigation also shows how a decade of court-ordered spending in poor and minority neighborhoods has paid off. (September, 1995)
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Mismanaged Care
The New York Times takes an in-depth look at how each year for the last decade, dozens of newborn babies have died or been left to struggle with brain damage or other lifelong injuries because of mistakes made by inexperienced doctors and poorly supervised midwives and nurses in the teeming delivery rooms of New York City's public hospitals. (March 1995)
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City's Blacks Face a Health Care Crisis
Milwaukee Journal explores the poor quality of health care for black residents of Milwaukee using computer analysis; finds blacks die of the same diseases as whites but 10 years earlier; blacks are hospitalized twice as often as whites with diseases related to poverty; black children have especially high levels of birth defects and infant mortality; few black doctors are practicing; medical establishment has virtually abandoned black Milwaukeeans, Aug. 19 - 21, 1990
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Runaway Pensions: Fire, police pensions stir cries for reform
Milwaukee Journal series on disability pensions for city police and firefighters finds the city doing little to control the rising number of claims or to investigate their validity despite the high cost to taxpayers.