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, ...
Do you know the history of discrimination in your community? We delved into Waterloo, Iowa, for a podcast about the country’s racial wealth gap. What we saw included two types of real estate racism ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Alexandria Police Department school resource officers walk through T.C. Williams High School in June 2021. The City Council voted in 2021 to pull funding for school resource officers and then reversed ...
Senate Majority PAC’s stated mission is to maintain the Democratic majority of the U.S. Senate. It is especially outspoken against Karl Rove and the conservative super PAC, American Crossroads, which ...
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 ...
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 ...
Brothers Santos and Mariano have been chasing jobs after hurricanes for nearly two decades. And the grueling work of cleaning and rebuilding after natural disasters has taken a toll on their bodies.