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Detroit’s Human Services Department spends $200k+ on new furnishings instead of feeding and clothing low-income families

Steve Neavling and Jim Schaefer of the Detroit Free Press uncover, that despite a third of Detroit’s population living below the federal poverty line, their Human Services Department spent “$182,000 […]
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After several reports of abuse, HI long-term care facilities goes unsanctioned

“In a state where nursing homes are rarely sanctioned, federal regulators did not penalize one of Hawaii’s premium institutions for its failure to protect defenseless elderly women from a sexually […]
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Workforce employees create list of illegal immigrants

Two women who worked for the Department of Workforce Services conspired to create a list of undocumented immigrants who were receiving state assistance. Leah Carson was reluctant at first but […]
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The murder of Edwin Pratt

In a five-year investigation, Seattle Weekly reporter Rick Anderson has brought to light the 1969 murder of the Northwest civil rights activist and leader, Edwin Pratt. This detailed report discloses […]
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Adults with disabilities paid extremely low wages

In this series that was "inspired by a session at the IRE conference in 2010," The Columbus Dispatch reporters Rita Price, Jill Riepenhoff and Jennifer Smith-Richards reveal that thousands of […]
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Doctors in juvenile jails linked to drug company's wallet.

"A Palm Beach Post investigation found that Florida is doling out heavy doses of antipsychotic drugs to kids locked up in state juvenile jails. The drugs, which can cause suicidal […]
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Sheriff's office in one AZ county ignore children's plea for help.

Christina Boomer and Mark LaMet at KNXV-TV in Phoenix discovered more than 400 sex crimes cases, many involving young children, were ignored by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office. Detectives never […]
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The U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development fails to use common-sense oversight.

In "Million-Dollar Wasteland," The Washington Post's Debbie Cenziper reports that the federal government's largest housing construction program for the poor has squandered hundreds of millions of dollars on stalled or […]
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Social and economic discrimination still rampant in Houston low-income housing.

Yang Wang  reports on the disturbing low-income housing neighborhood conditions in Houston, TX that led to a teens death. Just weeks before 19-year-old Jamesha Floyd was pulled from her burning […]
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Florida caretakers leave residents to suffer

In the series, Neglected to Death, Miami Herald reporters Michael Sallah, Rob Barry and Carol Marbin Miller revealed that "caretakers in assisted-living facilities across Florida" were neglecting patients of proper […]
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