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No Worker Left Behind
Michigan's No Worker Left Behind program faced funding cuts in 2010. A large proportion of the funds for the program were going to private trade schools, however, no state agency was licensing or inspecting these schools.
Tags: No Worker Left Behind; funding; job retraining; labor; unemployment
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Danger on Your Plate
The Center for Investigative Reporting hired the food analysis lab of the Sarajevo Veterinary School to test food samples purchased in farmers' markets, food shops and stalls to determine food safety. Center reporters found problems with contamination, government inspection, labeling, waste, and NGO's that collect money but "really do little to guard consumers against bad food."
Tags: food safety; Mad Cow Disease; CIN; Linking Agricultural Markets to Producers; LAMP; E.coli; proteus; alfotoxins; bacteria; fungi; food handling; TRACES animal tracking; smuggling; World Health Organization; Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations; EU
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Behind the UConn Logo: A Broken Promise. As Colleges Profit, Sweatshops Worsen.
This investigation showed that, even though several years ago the University of Connecticut pledged to battle the sweatshop conditions under which their lucrative licensed merchandise was made, not much progress has actually been made. The reporters found that most schools merely watch from the sidelines as factory conditions deteriorate. A trend towards moving production into China is one factor that contributed to the problems.
Tags: college; merchandise; trade; maquilladoras; Nike
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Dan Gordon, Merrill Lynch and the Missing $43 Million
Dan Gordon, a 24-year-old Merrill Lynch energy trader, embezzled $43 million from the world's largest securities firm, which ignored warnings of criminal conduct by Gordon and which didn't disclose the theft until after it was reporter by Bloomberg News, three years after Gordon's crimes. Four months after the first Bloomberg News story, Gordon pleaded guilty to fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy.
Tags: Williams School; Merrill Lynch & Co.; U.S. Justice Department; Dan Gordon; embezzlement; energy trade; offshore companies; offshore accounts; conspiracy; securities; Yale University; Boston University; money laundering; Ostrich Capital; Kings Holdings LLC; AIG Private Bank; Constellation Energy Group; Newport Pacific Financial Group SA; Allegheny Energy Inc.; Mellon Bank; K2 Energy Corporation; Falcon Energy Holdings; Daticon; fraud
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ABC News Investigative Reporting On 9/11 Attacks And Terrorism
ABC News investigative reporting linked to the 9/11 attacks: identification and role of hijacking ring-leader Mohammed Atta; FBI handling of the Zacarias Moussaoui case; training of hijackers at American flight schools; hijackers' efforts to obtain crop dusters; Mafia profiteering in World Trade Center clean up.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; September 11th; 2001
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Stealth TV
Award-winning New York journalist Russ Baker examines the implications of television invasion into schools. The report focuses on the performance of "Channel One, a public-affairs TV broadcast available exclusively for school viewing." The story reveals that "for 10 years now, the folks behind Channel One have been able to offer advertisers a dream demographic: a captive audience of nearly half of all American teenagers." The author finds that "the ads on Channel One are grossly out of place in an academic environment," and that the program offers poor news content despite its "self proclaimed ... educational mission." The story reveals that "the key American institutions - governmental, educational - that might be expected to raise an alarm ... have mostly been looking the other way."
Tags: education; television; advertising business; teachers; students; GAO; Federal Trade Commission; children; spending patterns
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1998 IRE TV Award Winners and Finalists Tape.
The 1998 TV Award Winners and Finalists Tape is a compilation of 12 investigative stories. 1.) "Tomb of the Unknowns," CBS News. A 13-part series that forced the government to face the truth about how it defaced one of the nation's most sacred shrines and denied a grieving mother the truth about her son. See #15332. 2.) "The Deadly Trade in Fake Medicine," CBS News, 60 Minutes. Substandard medicine marketed by a secret network of manufacturers, peddlers make fortunes and regulators have failed to stop this deadly trade. See #15241. 3.) "Abuse of Power." ABC News 20/20. The U.S. military's power to strike back at personnel who are critical. Whistleblowers who expose misconduct, waste, fraud and abuse are told they are mentally ill. See #15282. 4.) "Shell Game." NBC News Dateline. A hidden camera investigation inside a plant that processes 2 million eggs a day, reveals eggs up to a month old, are mixed in with fresh eggs, rewashed, repacked and sold like new. See #15236. 5.) "Doublecross." ABC Primetime. This investigation reveals how the United States government turned a drug smuggler into a top informant and then allowed him to distribute cocaine into the United States. See #15251. 6.) "Fake Doctors, Real Dangers." CBS-2 News, Los Angeles. This series uncovers fake doctors all over Southern California running illegal clinics. See #15259. 7.) "Impact: Forced Sterilization." WXYZ investigates into the sterilization of thousands of men, women and children by the state government in Michigan. See #15373. 8.) "Oath of Silence." WMAQ. This four-month investigation exposes secret malpractice settlements that are costing taxpayers millions of dollars. See #15373. 9.) "Troubled Transit." WTXF, Philadelphia. This three-month investigation of the Septa Public Transit in Philadelphia reveals some of the transit workers are not doing the jobs the taxpayers are paying them to do. See #15221. 10.) "Olympic Bribery Scandal." KTVX. Salt Lake Olympic Organizers have been spending thousands of dollars to pay the college tuition of international Olympic associate's relatives. See # 15201. 11.) "Stadium Investigation." WCPO, Cincinnati. Hamilton County in Cincinnati have spent more than a billion dollars to build and finance a new stadium, promising more business for minorities and women. A five-month investigation uncovers many broken promises. 12.) "Mismanagement 101." KWTV, Oklahoma City. Millions of dollars in overspending, fraud, waste and allegations of cover-up. Example; 50 construction employees were diverted from air conditioning the elementary school to building an all automatic, high-tech bathroom located just outside the superintendent's office. See # 15303.
Tags: TAPE; Vietnam; Freedom of Information Act; FOI; Computer Assisted Reporting; CAR; IRE; no transcripts.
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Overselling College
This article debates the benefits of a liberal arts degree vs. practical vocational or technical training. The merits of President Bill Clinton's education proposals and whether American schools are preparing children and young adults for work are also discussed.
Tags: higher education; trade schools; public schools; postsecondary education; Homer S. Gudelshy Institute for Technical Education in Maryland
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Many Owners of Proprietary Schools Gave Generously to Member of Congress
The story looks at the federal campaign contributions that representatives of the nation's for-profit trade schools made to the lawmakers who sit on the House of Representatives Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities, which sets the government's policies on these schools. Records provided by the Federal Election Commission indicated that between January 1995 and October 15, 1996, individual trade-school officials and the political-action committee of the Career College Association, which represents trade schools, had contributed $133,000 to these lawmakers. The donations were especially heavy because the 105th Congress will renew the Higher Education Act. (November 8, 1996)
Tags: FEC
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WVTM-TV (Birmingham, Ala.) reveals that a local for-profit trade school uses high-pressure techniques to get students to sign up for expensive, long term training courses and then doesn't deliver; the school, which has one of the nation's highest student loan default rates, has unqualified teachers and lawsuits against it, Oct. 19 - 21, 1993.