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Help Us Investigate Internships
by Blair Hickman and Jeremy B. MerrillSince the financial crash, jobs have held a top spot in public discussion. But among all the employment talk, one sector of the workforce has consistently...
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Intern vs. Mayor: Battle Bares Bloomberg’s Argument for Secrecy
by Sergio Hernandez, Special to ProPublica In November 2010, I was earning $300 a week for The Village Voice, blogging about unemployed actors who moonlit as bed bug exterminators and a city project to...
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Everything We Know About What’s Happened Under Sequestration
by Theodoric MeyerWe’ve updated our sequestration explainer to reflect new developments. It was originally published on April 11, 2013.When the annual White House Easter Egg Hunt faced cancellation...
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Is Obama Delivering on His Promise of a “21st Century” Approach to Drugs?
by Christie ThompsonWhen the Obama administration released its 2013 Drug Control Strategy recently, drug czar Gil Kerlikowske called it a “21st century” approach to drug policy. “It should be a public...
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Nonprofit Explorer
by Mike Tigas and Sisi WeiUse our database to find almost 616,000 tax-exempt organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as well as download their tax...
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‘Act of Congress’ Stresses Hopeful Creation of Dodd-Frank, Omits Grim Ending
by Jesse EisingerThis was co-published with The Washington Post. President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank financial reform law in July 2010, hailing it as an overhaul to prevent the kind of crisis that...
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In Key Senate Job, Ex-Lockheed Exec Replaced by Ex-Lockheed Lobbyist
by Justin ElliottLast year, we told you about how former Lockheed Martin executive Ann Sauer had been hired to be the top Republican staffer on the Senate Armed Services Committee.Sauer got $1.6...
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IRS Office That Targeted Tea Party Also Disclosed Confidential Docs From...
by Kim Barker and Justin ElliottThe same IRS office that deliberately targeted conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status in the run-up to the 2012 election released nine pending confidential...
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Discussion: What’s Going on at Gitmo?
by Christie ThompsonThe current hunger strike at Guantanamo has entered its fourth month, with resistance growing to involve 100 detainees. More medics have been flown in to assist with force-feeding...
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Discussion: Installment Loans and the Shifting Debt Industry
by Blair HickmanMonday, we co-published a story with Marketplace on installment loans, a growing industry that offers quick money to low-income borrowers – and is flying under regulators’...
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On Victory Drive, Soldiers Defeated by Debt
by Paul Kiel, ProPublica, and Mitchell Hartman, MarketplaceThis story was co-produced with Marketplace. Listen to their coverage. Seven years after Congress banned payday-loan companies from charging...
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The Most Important #Muckreads on Rape in the Military
by Christie ThompsonThe Pentagon announced this week that a sergeant working in the military’s sexual assault prevention office had been charged with — you guessed it — sexual assault. This news came...
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The Story Behind Our Hospital Interactive
by Tom DetzelHere at ProPublica, we love to find new ways to tell stories. We’ve built data-driven news apps, commissioned our own news songs and crafted narratives with a novelist’s touch, all to...
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Your Hospital May Be Hazardous To Your Health
As part of our ongoing investigation into patient safety, ProPublica reporters Marshall Allen and Olga Pierce produced this interactive story in collaboration with PBS Frontline and Ocupop during a May...
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How the IRS’s Nonprofit Division Got So Dysfunctional
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Congressmen to Hagel: Where Are the Missing War Records?
by Peter Sleeth, Special to ProPublicaThe top Republican and Democrat on the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs are demanding more details from defense Secretary Chuck Hagel about lost Army field...
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ProPublica and the IRS Scandal
by Mike WebbLast week, ProPublica's Kim Barker and Justin Elliott explained how the IRS sent us tax-exempt applications for nonprofit status from conservative groups. We also noted some of the...
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Sound, Fury and the IRS Mess
by Richard Tofel ProPublica’s job is to report the news rather than to make news ourselves, but sometimes we find an article of ours to be itself a subject of public debate. Last week was such a time,...
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