Recent stories of migrant children working long hours and under dangerous conditions in the United States have shed light on how pervasive migrant child labor has become in this country. In December, ...
Taxes aren’t simple, but they have big ripple effects on our lives — from our financial bottom line to the quality of life in our community. As we’re reporting on the unequal impact of state and local ...
JAMAAL GLENN is an entrepreneur, venture capital investor, university professor, writer, speaker, and consultant. He is the Founder & CEO of JG Holdings, an investment and advisory firm as well as an ...
Nancy Campos’ back ached as she loaded more than 100 Amazon packages onto her truck. The 59-year-old grandmother, a mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service, had worked 13 days in a row without a ...
HINKLEY, Calif. – Ten days before Christmas 1965, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. station chief Richard Jacobs walked a half-block on a dusty road lined with scraggly creosote shrubs to check out a ...
The Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act was supposed to be a strong dose of medicine for the ills of heirs’ property — jointly owned land with multiple heirs not documented in wills or deedbooks, ...
Protecting people’s health from environmental hazards, Maricela Mares-Alatorre and her family found out the hard way, is a never-ending fight. She was in high school in the late 1980s when her parents ...
First designed to protect recently desegregated schools, school police officer presence has grown in recent decades. Across the country, data shows that students of color and those with disabilities ...
What happens if you don’t have the money to pay your state income tax bill? As the Center for Public Integrity has investigated the impact of state taxes on economic inequality, we kept hearing how ...
The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates betrayals of public trust. Sign up to receive our stories. This story also appeared in The Los Angeles Times ARVIN, Calif. — ...
** Lobbying totals calculated by the Center for Public Integrity using data from the Senate Office of Public Records. * Contribution grand total includes employee and soft money contributions from the ...
Description of misconduct In 1989, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned Adams’ conviction, holding that prosecutor Douglas D. Mulder withheld a statement a witness gave to the police that ...