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Catholic super PAC bides time as Pope Francis visits Washington
Pope Francis’s first visit to the United States has already ignited political passions in the nation’s capital.But the nation’s most prominent Catholic super PAC is keeping a decidedly low profile as...
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Hedge funds get cheap homes, homeowners get the boot
Julius Uwansc was in trouble with his mortgage after refinancing in 2009, just after the real estate bubble popped. Like millions of others, he found himself owing more on his house than it was...
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Salary only part of S.C. lawmakers’ compensation
Look up the annual pay South Carolina’s part-time House and Senate members receive, and you’ll likely find this misleading amount: $10,400.All House and Senate members are paid more than double that...
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S.C. governor plays political football
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley received an estimated $380,000 worth of free football passes to University of South Carolina and Clemson University football games during her first four years as...
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Capitol Gains: S.C. politicians use office to pad pockets
South Carolina elected officials and candidates have what amounts to a personal ATM that dispensed nearly $100 million since 2009 for such things as car repairs, football tickets, male-enhancement...
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Shop on Amazon.com, help elect Bernie Sanders?
It turns out you can’t buy everything on Amazon.com after all.The online retail giant is quashing an effort by a Texas teenager to use the company’s website to funnel cash into his newly formed...
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Center wins two Online Journalism Awards
The Center for Public Integrity was honored with two prizes Saturday night from the the Online News Association (ONA) during the group’s annual awards banquet in Los Angeles, California. An examination...
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Presidential candidates in fantasy land over health care
Presidential candidates from both parties are full of sound and fury about various aspects of the U.S. health care system, but unless we as a nation get serious about big money in politics, all the...
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Test your money-in-politics IQ
Hey political junkies: Think you've been following the news this month? Now is your chance to prove it!See if you can answer these seven questions correctly in the Center for Public Integrity's latest...
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FEC employees: a bedraggled lot
Federal Election Commission employees — a generally unhappy lot for years — are even more unsatisfied with their jobs than before.That's the bleak conclusion drawn from the 2015 Federal Employee...
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Cell phone lobby win means 'more people will die'
Joan Lantz was having trouble breathing. At 9:28 p.m. on Feb. 7, 2012, the 71-year-old picked up her cellphone and dialed 911 from her small apartment in Rock Hill, South Carolina.“I can’t breathe,”...
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FEC to hackers: We're ready this time if government shuts down
Two years ago, when the federal agencies last shut down because Congress failed to fund them, Chinese hackers successfully attacked the Federal Election Commission's computer and information technology...
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'Sweeping reforms' proposed for black lung benefit program
Members of Congress on Tuesday proposed what they called “sweeping reforms” in the federal black lung benefits program, citing a 2013 investigation by the Center for Public Integrity and ABC News.That...
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Shift billions in prison spending to teachers, says Education Secretary
In a high-profile speech Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan urged states to shift a healthy share of local and state correctional spending on nonviolent offenders to teachers—especially...
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Johns Hopkins terminates black lung program
Johns Hopkins Medicine said Wednesday that it has discontinued its black lung program, the subject of a Center for Public Integrity-ABC News investigation that showed how coal companies routinely beat...
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2015 state ad wars tracker
Chris Zubak-Skeeshttp://www.publicintegrity.org/authors/chris-zubak-skeesBen...
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Who’s trying to influence the 2015 elections?
The Center for Public Integrity is investigating who is trying to influence the 2015 elections through television advertising, part of a broader effort to consider the sources behind political power in...
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Outside groups playing bigger role in 2015 state elections
U.S. Sen. David Vitter, a Republican candidate for governor of Louisiana, would like voters to forget his past connection to a notorious prostitution ring.But there’s a new political group in the...
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Clean-air advocates upset with EPA ozone decision
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday that the country’s anti-smog standard does not sufficiently protect Americans’ lungs and will be tightened, a move that irked groups on both sides...
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Bipartisan alliance vows to slow Virginia's school-to-prison pipeline
A bipartisan alliance in Virginia has launched a campaign to cut the number of students arrested by police at schools and reduce the number of juveniles held in large youth prisons in that state. The...
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