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Lawsuit: Low-income students assigned too much 'work experience' or free time...
A class-action lawsuit filed against the state of California Thursday alleges that low-income students are deprived of an equal education because they are denied academic instruction time — yet...
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Shameful coverage of Obamacare's real impacts
If you read my column last week about a Senate hearing that showed how Obamacare has affected Americans, you might have wondered if I was in the same room with reporters who presumably covered the...
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State Senate leader reacts to Center report, urging counsel for truants
A prominent Tennessee state senator involved in national juvenile justice reforms said he is troubled by a recent Center for Public Integrity report on children who’ve been prosecuted for truancy in...
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EPA plan would slash climate-damaging carbon emissions from 1,000 existing...
The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday proposed the first-ever limits on greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants. The high-profile announcement marks the second time in less than a...
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Court reopens third case after Center uncovered judicial conflicts of interest
A federal appeals court has withdrawn a three-judge panel’s 2007 dismissal of a Pennsylvania man’s lawsuit against ExxonMobil Corp. after a Center for Public Integrity investigation found that the wife...
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States urged to embrace alternatives to school discipline criminalizing kids
A prominent state lawmakers’ advisory group issued a major report Tuesday warning of the “school to prison” pipeline and offering multiple alternatives to harsh school discipline and police crackdowns...
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Medicare Advantage made simple: a glossary
Medicare covers about 54 million Americans who are over 65 years old or disabled. The government-funded program offers two options:Fee-For-Service: This is the standard coverage chosen by more than...
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Why Medicare Advantage costs taxpayers billions more than it should
First in a three-part series.In South Florida, one of the nation’s top privately-run Medicare insurance plans faces a federal investigation into allegations that it overbilled the government by...
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Whistleblower suit says health plan cheated government out of more than $1...
Josh Valdez took an executive level job in April 2010 expecting to improve medical services at two Puerto Rican Medicare Advantage health plans owned by a subsidiary of New Jersey company: Aveta...
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Explaining Medicare Advantage, and why it matters to you
What is the difference between Medicare Advantage and Medicare?They’re two sides of the same coin. By choosing standard Medicare, people can visit any doctor they want. But they may have to buy...
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Methodology for 'Medicare Advantage Money Grab'
For this series, the Center for Public Integrity analyzed Medicare Advantage (MA) data obtained from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The data contained enrollment and payment...
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Mississippi's super PAC-dominated Senate slugfest not over yet
A U.S. Senate primary dominated by super PACs and nonprofit groups is headed into overtime.Neither incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., nor Chris McDaniel, his tea party challenger, on Tuesday...
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Labor Department issues warning about Hopkins doctor's findings on black lung...
The reverberations from a Center for Public Integrity/ABC News investigation continued this week as the U.S. Department of Labor warned its officials to view with skepticism any X-ray readings by a...
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150 billion reasons Medicare Advantage matters
Eleven years ago, Congress created private Medicare Advantage health plans to help control health care spending on the elderly. The plans now cover nearly 16 million seniors at an estimated cost to...
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Republicans to target Van Hollen in FEC complaint
Republican officials will soon file a complaint with the Federal Election Commission against Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., that accuses him of illegally accepting pro bono legal services, a senior...
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Race-car driver's payday lending business 'deceived borrowers'
A payday lending business with ties to Indian tribes successfully dodged allegations for years that it violated state lending laws. But now, a U.S. district judge has dealt the online business a...
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Potential Sprint, T-Mobile marriage threatens consumer gains
Sprint Corp. and T-Mobile USA Inc., which only weeks ago were arguing that the government should increase competition in the wireless market by allocating new airwaves to smaller companies like them,...
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Charles Koch's long history of education funding
Conservative billionaire Charles Koch's eponymous charitable foundation today announced it's giving the United Negro College Fund $25 million to primarily fund thousands of merit-based...
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How an island paradise became a haven for dirty money
In the fall of 2012, two strangers from Africa showed up in Seychelles, an emerald-green archipelago in the Indian Ocean nearly a thousand miles east of Somalia. Unlike Prince William and Kate...
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Health insurers have their way with regulators
Second in a three-part series.Four years ago, Medicare auditors came to an alarming conclusion: the federal government shouldn’t have paid a half-dozen insurance plans hundreds of millions of dollars...
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