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Afghan Boys Are Prized, So Girls Live the Part
In Afghanistan, families disguise their daughters s sons and raise them as boys to allow for their daughters to be education, work, and have more freedoms. The practice is called "bacha posh" and the investigation takes an unprecedented look at it.
Tags: Afghanistan; segregation; gender; bacha posh
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Gangs in Garden City: How Immigration, Segregation and Youth Violence Are Changing
Journalist Sarah Garland investigates how two of the most dangerous Central American gangs have made their way into the suburbs of Long Island. Garland also tells the story of several young people whose lives have been affected by gangs or gang violence. Her five-year investigation involves conversations with police, gang members and school officials. That information reveals a different opinion than that of the Department of Homeland Security, who believes the gangs to be a problem on the level of Al Qaeda.
Tags: street gang; gang violence; youth; Mara Salvatrucha; MS-13; Hempstead; immigrant gangs; Latin American gangs; Salvadorans With Pride; SWP; Long Island
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Fighting New Jersey's Tax Crunch
The series provided a detailed analysis of New Jersey's dysfunctional property tax system, which has the highest costs in the nation. Using U.S. census data, IRS data, 10 years of local tax information, and more than 40 databases of local and state employee payrolls, we found that the system had evolved into a juggernaut that was destroying the fiscal and social fabric economy of the state.
Tags: property tax; racial disparity; assessments; tax breaks; economic segregation;
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Head Games
Alan Pendergast, staffwriter for Denver's Westword reports that in 2004, 20% of Colorado's jail population was diagnosed with severe mental illness, and "the true number may be much higher, since some inmates' illnesses are never properly diagnosed." The story compares cost of psychiatric lock-up versus community mental health care. Pendergast advises other journalists doing similar stories should "insist that someone in the accontable chain of command review and comment on the records, even if the actual treatment providers are refusing to be interviewed."
Tags: prison mental illness; correctional systems; lockdown; supermax prison; ADHD; Department of Corrections; forensic psychiatry; head cases; administrative segregation; HIPPA; San Carlos Correctional Facility; Offenders WIth Serious Mental Illness; OSMI; National Institute on Drug Abuse; Mental Health Occupations Grievance Board
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Charity for Disabled Fraud
Billions of dollars are spent by the government each year in Medicaid subsidies to help people with severe disabilites to get jobs. Unfortunately there is no meaning to the jobs, and the government doesn't check on how poorly the money spent is working.
Tags: handicapped; set-aside contract; segregation; charity; charities; workshop
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Marching On; Carbon Copies; Resisting the Dream; Block Buster; Passing the Torch; Tracing History
Since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and others of the Chicago Freedom Movement tried to help segregate th city back in 1966, little has changed since. The whites of Chicago are primarily living on the Northwest Side and African Americans are living on the city's South and West Sides.
Tags: segregation; Martin Luther King; Loop neighborhood; Harold Washington; civil rights
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Separate and Unequal
This investigation began as an attempt to determine if the Bakersfield school district's desegregation program was successful. The reporters found that not only was the program failing, but that millions of dollars of federal money was being wasted on it.
Tags: segregation; desegregation; race; discrimination; grants; teachers; school administration
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The Great Divide
This four-part series reveals that education in Pennsylvania and New Jersey is overwhelmingly not diverse despite 50 years of supposed desegregation. Economic factors often lead to racial segregation, but research shows that "white flight" causes suburban areas to be just as separated as big cities. The private schooling option also steals many white students from public schools. One school district attempts to prove that with effort almost perfect racial balance can be achieved.
Tags: Brown v. Board of Education; school; diversity; minority; black; African American; integration; equal; education; race; segregation; NAACP; white flight; Jim Crow
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"Segregation Persists in NY"
A study of racial breakdown of census data by voting tract shows that racial shifts are evident in the city area.
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A Different Kind of Divide
LaFleur takes the 50 year anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision that ended segregation in schools to show that though things are no longer black and white, Latinos in Texas are generally concentrated in their own schools. She finds that Latino segregation nationwide has increased since the 1960s.
Tags: Latino segregation; segregation in schools; Richardson Terrace Elementary; Maple Lawn; Civil Rights Project at Harvard University.