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Methodology of Unequal Risk investigation
Our data analysis behind the Unequal Risk investigation into work-related diseases in America.CANCER RISKOur interactive cancer-risk graphic is based on an analysis by Adam M. Finkel — a former...
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Read their stories: How job-related illnesses upended these families' lives
Jamie Smith Hopkinshttp://www.publicintegrity.org/authors/jamie-smith-hopkinsJim Morrishttp://www.publicintegrity.org/authors/jim-morrisMaryam...
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Slow-motion tragedy for American workers
PORT BYRON, New York— Six weeks before Chris Johnson was born in 1974, the U.S. government issued a warning about a substance that would nearly kill him 30 years later.The substance was silica, a...
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Center investigation into nursing homes wins National Press Club award
A Center investigation of nursing home quality has won the Joseph D. Ryle Award for Excellence in Writing on the Problems of Geriatrics from the 2015 National Press Club journalism...
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Gridlocked elections watchdog goes two years without top lawyer
The Federal Election Commission, a bipartisan agency charged with enforcing and administering the nation’s campaign laws, will next month zoom past a fairly preposterous milestone given its mission:...
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9 things to know about Chris Christie
With the shadow of the Fort Lee bridge scandal still looming, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will today make a long-anticipated announcement that he’s running for president.The two-time Republican...
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Prison inmate forms super PAC
Super PACs have been formed by journalists. By space nerds. Even comedian Stephen Colbert.Now, for the first time, a super PAC is being masterminded from behind bars.Adam Savader this week formed...
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Ohio legislature strikes back against pot legalization effort
A campaign to legalize marijuana in Ohio took a step closer to making November’s ballot Tuesday, after its promoters turned in more than twice the required number of signatures.But the measure will...
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The impenetrable world of Mark Flores
SAN JOSE, California — In the photograph, a frozen moment of optimism, Yvette Flores is smiling.It’s the summer of 1979. Yvette, in a flower-patterned dress, is 22 years old and five months pregnant....
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12 things to know about Jim Webb
Former Sen. Jim Webb, who today announced his bid to become the Democrats’ presidential nominee, has been a dark horse before.In 2006, Webb, a former Secretary of the Navy who had never occupied...
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Supreme Court justices bolstered by free travel, royalties, rental income
Before inspiring celebration, debate and dictionary searches last week, the majority of the U.S. Supreme Court managed to squeeze in some globetrotting — on someone else’s dime.Six of the court’s nine...
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After 44 years, halting progress on workplace disease
On May 28, 1971, exactly one month after opening its doors, the already reviled Occupational Safety and Health Administration handed out its first citation.The citation went to Allied Chemical...
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Coming health insurance mergers will cost consumers
The number of health insurers competing for your business almost certainly will decrease in coming months as the big for-profit firms merge or acquire each other. The companies insist that the results...
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How government, business and labor can better protect workers
The country’s safeguards against toxic workplace exposures are dangerously weak, but they don’t have to stay that way.The Occupational Safety and Health Administration takes years, sometimes decades,...
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How we visualized cancer risks to American workers and how you can help us
Last week, we published an interactive about how American workers can be legally exposed to dangerously high levels of carcinogens and other toxic substances, and where the regulation is lacking. We...
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Nuclear weapons lab lobbied with federal funds to block competition for...
Top officials at one of the U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories secretly drew up a careful list of targets in 2009. But these were not Russian missile silos or Chinese leadership targets. The officials’...
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Report says girls being misdirected into juvenile detention
Girls who are victims of abuse are being inappropriately funneled into juvenile detention halls that fail to treat them for mental-health needs, a report unveiled Thursday argues.“The Sexual Abuse to...
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All about inequality - the issue of our time
Inequality – the issue of our timeIt never ceases to intrigue me that so much of the Center’s work whether explicitly or just by virtue of dealing with those who are hit by the collision of politics...
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More Medicare Advantage audits reveal overcharges
Government audits just released as the result of a lawsuit detail widespread billing errors in private Medicare Advantage health plans going back years, including overpayments of thousands of dollars a...
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Explore the data: where Australian mining leaves its mark
There were more than 150 publicly traded Australian mining companies present in 33 African nations at the end of 2014, some of them linked to alleged injustices that would never be tolerated in...
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