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, ...
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 ...
A Yurok tribe member, Thomas Willson, checks on his drift net strung across the Klamath River in search for Steelhead fish. He lives on Yurok tribal lands in Weitchpec, California. (Michael Macor/The ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
A type of law first created after the end of slavery to prohibit Black men from voting prevented more than 4.6 million Americans from participating in the 2022 midterm elections. Forty-eight states ...
Iowa eliminated nine days of early voting. New Hampshire took away ballot drop boxes. And Georgia made providing water to voters waiting in line a crime. In many states, nearly all controlled by ...
The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates betrayals of public trust. Sign up to receive our stories. Thousands of medical professionals have billed Medicare at ...
Rita Welch looks at photos of her son, Johnathan. He died on the job at 18 while stripping furniture with methylene chloride. (Joe Dodd/AP Images for the Center for Public Integrity) Reading Time: 25 ...