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Paid not to work

The series showed that Portland police and firefighters can continue earning a disability check, tax free--until retirement--even as they hold other lucrative and often physically demanding jobs, while claiming that […]
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Workers Comp: Falling Down on the Job

"Consumer Reports uncovered a series of formidable obstacles that disabled employees face in winning medical care and compensation. These include: cruel and unnecessary delays; endless medical examinations by a series […]
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Back from Iraq

This story details the abysmal treatment of American soldiers returning from the war in Iraq, many of whom have been terribly wounded. The story follows four seriously wounded soldiers and […]
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Danger Dismissed: How the Pentagon downplays the risks of depleted uranium weapons

Evans discovers that the veterans of the 1991 Persian Gulf War "have a disability rate three times as high as that of Vietnam and World War II veterans," and that […]
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The Global Willowbrook

The story documents a small organization called Mental Disability Rights International, which travels worldwide to document the treatment of the mentally disabled. The group's aim is to get the U.S., […]
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Hell House: Notorious drug house fed off taxpayer dollars

The Herald investigated a Boston crack-and-heroin den and used public records to show how government was working at cross-purposes. One set of agencies fueled the drug trade with government rent […]
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Attention Deficits

The article examines the growing size of the learning disability entitlement in the U.S. It deals with Mark Kelman, Stanford law professor and a pioneer of the radical Critical Legal […]
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Going South

Dozens of former New York police officers, supposedly too disabled to work, are collecting thousands in tax-free disability benefits at the same time they have law enforcement jobs in Florida. […]
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America's most wanted welfare plan

The series uncovered gaping holes in the administration of the Social Security Administration's Supplemental Security Income and Disability Insurance programs, which together cost taxpayers $66 billion a year. The series […]
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"Disposable Soldiers"

Reporter Joshua Kors exposes the story of Sergeant Chuck Luther who was severely injured by "mortar fire while serving in Iraq." His injury took the form of intense headaches that […]
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