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Methodology for our nursing homes investigation
For the main analysis of nursing home staffing, the Center for Public Integrity downloaded the 2012 Medicare cost reports for skilled nursing facilities. The Center extracted data about the number of...
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Running a five-star nursing home
Administrator Angela Buckland regularly walks the halls of the Woodview Healthcare nursing home in Fort Wayne, Indiana, to monitor how well residents are being treated.It’s just one part of a...
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Prison banker cuts fees after Center report
JPay Inc., the biggest provider of money services for prisoners, has eliminated fees for sending money orders to inmates in three states, creating a free deposit option for families of more than...
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Hate political ads? Skip morning shows
If you hate political advertisements, some advice: Give Matt Lauer, Robin Roberts and Charlie Rose the boot.The nation's marquee network morning shows — "Good Morning America," "Today" and "CBS This...
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Poorly rated nursing homes got HUD-guaranteed mortgages anyway
Nursing home magnate Floyd A. Schlossberg had to be happy with the Department of Housing and Urban Development on March 30, 2012.Nursing home residents and the American taxpayer, perhaps, not so...
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Nuclear weapons lab used taxpayer funds to obtain more taxpayer funds
Top officials at the Lockheed Martin Corporation in 2009 sought to extend their lucrative contract work managing Sandia National Laboratories for the Energy Department, and expected that their...
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Nearly 100,000 negative ads helped turn tide in Florida elections
The 2014 election is over — in nearly every race — and voters can now turn on their televisions without being inundated with political ads. Here’s a tally of how the TV ad wars played out, according to...
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Slow start to Landrieu's runoff campaign
Sen. Mary Landrieu's overtime bid to win re-election began with a decidedly sluggish start, as Republican opponent Bill Cassidy and his allies last week pummeled her — effectively uncontested — with...
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Nursing homes serving minorities offering less care than those housing whites
The memory of the suffering Letasha Mims endured at the Alden Wentworth nursing home on Chicago's South Side still makes her mother Mary weep. In less than two years she developed a decubitus ulcer on...
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Obama administration let opponents define the Affordable Care Act
When I saw the news coverage of White House health care adviser Jonathan Gruber’s remarks, in which he essentially called Americans stupid, I thought of the old saying, “With friends like that, who...
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Congress' never-ending political money chase
There's no better proof that U.S. elections never end than the fundraising scene this month in Washington, D.C.No matter that Election Day 2014 isn't even two weeks past and Election Day 2016 is 721...
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Grover Norquist nonprofit funded pro-Republican women’s group
Americans for Tax Reform, the anti-tax group headed by Grover Norquist, helped bankroll Independent Women’s Voice, a conservative-leaning nonprofit that has pushed to elect Republican political...
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Crossroads GPS' cash plummeted in 2013
Revenue at Crossroads GPS, one of the nation’s largest politically active nonprofits, crashed from nearly $180 million in 2012 to about $3.4 million in 2013 — a non-election year, according to new tax...
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'Couldn't be reached' — a blog for all the times officials refuse to comment
“The official did not return request for comment.”“The agency declined to comment for this story.”“They did not respond to several emails and phone calls requesting comment.”No matter the wording, each...
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PR firm busts disclosure deadline while representing Burkina Faso
In June, Burkina Faso’s minister of human rights and civil promotion, in the midst of civil unrest in her West African nation, traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with members of Congress and other...
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U.S. spouses of ousted immigrants await Obama plan
As she mulls over whether President Barack Obama’s immigration plan could possibly help her, U.S. citizen Nicole Salgado cannot help but feel intense frustration. She is exasperated with repeatedly...
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Koch-linked organization uses ‘dark money’ to fight political disclosure
As the Internal Revenue Service contemplates new rules to illuminate “dark money” in politics, a little-known nonprofit group is fighting back using money traceable to billionaire brothers Charles and...
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Reporter's toolkit: Investigating sexual assault on your campus
Starting in late 2009, the Center for Public Integrity published an investigative series of pieces on how sexual assault complaints are handled on college campuses. After nine months of reporting, the...
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U.S. companies supply eavesdropping gear to Central Asian autocrats
American companies are supplying technology that the governments of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are using to spy on their citizens’ communications and clamp down on dissent, according to a new report...
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Conservative group fumbles disclosure in new tax document
The conservative nonprofit American Commitment is amending its 2013 tax return with the Internal Revenue Service after questions this week from the Center for Public Integrity.The nonprofit — led by...
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