Over the past few decades, a handful of massive nationwide companies have come to dominate the home health care industry. A new report by grantee Jake Bittle for The New Republic shows how one of those companies, LHC Group, has managed to squeeze out big profits from a low-margin business.Drawing on several employee interviews and hundreds of documents, the report ...
A decade after Iowa law enforcement agencies started using body cameras, Iowa has a widely divergent, unregulated system of rules and policies governing public access to a tool that many saw at the outset as a way of monitoring the conduct of police. Those disparities, found in a review of the policies of more than 200 agencies, can endanger the ...
In 2014, a second grader named Relisha Rudd disappeared from a homeless shelter in Washington, D.C. where she had been living with her family. By the time the city formally declared Relisha “missing,” 18 days had passed since the last time she’d been seen at school or in the shelter. Relisha has never been found.Through the Cracks investigates gaps in ...
The LMPD conducted 72 forced entries from September 2019 through March 2020, according to a review of police records by grantees at the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting. They kicked in doors, broke windows, and picked locks. They used battering rams and sledgehammers and, in one case, a concrete planter.Occasionally, officers were in a race against the clock and breaking ...
As part of a unique reporting project, grantees Dagmar Thiel and Frank LaRue interviewed dozens of Latino journalists across the U.S. about their experiences as journalists. What they uncovered were stories of disrespect and discrimination. Their reporting is punctuated by an ongoing study started in 2020 by Fundamedios, a Pan-American nonprofit that advocates for media freedom and the protection of journalists, ...
An investigation by grantee Ruslan Gurzhiy at the Russian-language media outlet, “Slavic Sacramento,” has revealed possible reasons why Slavic communities across the U.S. have been especially vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic. The unique investigation highlights the spread of the pandemic in Russian-speaking religious communities from California to New York and uncovers a culture of mistrust towards the government, resulting in the ...
Hundreds of members of Congress hold positions at private companies, which they’re allowed to do under federal law and House and Senate ethics rules, but this information is not released by Congress as searchable data. As part of a new report on COVID bailout data, grantees at Sludge combed all 535 members of Congress’ most recent annual disclosures and compiled ...
Farmers across the Midwest have been forced into a tough decision since the agribusiness company Monsanto introduced new cotton and soybean seeds genetically modified to withstand the pesticide dicamba beginning in 2015. It’s a reality that Monsanto and BASF planned on when they released the dicamba cropping system, according to grantee Johnathan Hettinger’s report for the Midwest Center for Investigative ...
1969: the height of counterculture and the year universities would seek to curb the unruly spectacle of student protest; the winter that Harvard University would begin the tumultuous process of merging with Radcliffe, its all-female sister school; and the year that Jane Britton, an ambitious twenty-three-year-old graduate student in Harvard’s Anthropology Department and daughter of Radcliffe Vice President J. Boyd ...
Reporters rushed to parse through police records in California after new legislation made them public for the first time in nearly 50 years, but the task of filing and reviewing thousands of open-records requests was impossible for newsrooms that had seen budget cuts and lay-offs. That’s when grantees at SoCal Connected helped form the California Reporting Project, made up of some 40 ...