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Grenades, Bread and Body Bags: How Illinois Has Spent $1.6

WebFighting — and adapting to — the coronavirus pandemic in Illinois has been costly. As of Oct. 1, state agencies reported spending more than $1.6 billion in federal …

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COVID-19 Took Black Lives First. It Didn’t Have To.

WebThe First 100. COVID-19 Took Black Lives First. It Didn’t Have To. By Duaa Eldeib, Adriana Gallardo, Akilah Johnson, Annie Waldman, Nina Martin, Talia Buford and …

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The Black American Amputation Epidemic

WebMaps by Lena Groeger. Design and production by Jillian Kumagai, Agnes Chang, and David Sleight. Black patients were losing limbs at triple the rate of others. …

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How the Bankruptcy System Is Failing Black Americans

WebAbout 18,000 times each year, Tennessee suspends the driver’s license of a Shelby County resident for failing to pay a traffic fine, according to state data obtained by …

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For years, JaMarcus Crews tried to get a new kidney, but corporate

WebThe diabetes had destroyed his kidneys, and he was trying to slim down so that he could get a transplant. On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, from 9:30 a.m. …

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Hundreds of Illinois Children Languish in Psychiatric Hospitals …

WebThe result: Every day since July 2015 through the end of December 2017, at least nine children — and sometimes dozens — were unnecessarily held in psychiatric …

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Living Apart, Coming Undone

WebApart, Coming. Undone. Under a landmark settlement, an ambitious housing program promised a better life for mentally ill New Yorkers. But some of the most …

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After Years in Institutions, a Road Home Paved With Hunger, …

WebTheir wish became real for Bunch for the first time in 2004. After years in and out of a psychiatric hospital, Bunch moved into a supported apartment with three other …

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The Trade Secret: Firms That Promised High-Tech Ransomware …

WebThe Trade Secret: Firms That Promised High-Tech Ransomware Solutions Almost Always Just Pay the Hackers As ransomware attacks crippled businesses and …

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Doing Less With Less: Mental Health Care in Mississippi

WebThe state of mental health care in Mississippi has been in freefall for years. As a consequence of the ripple effects of the financial crisis, Mississippi saw its state …

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He’d Waited Decades to Argue His Innocence.

WebProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published.. The judge’s notice of …

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As COVID-19 Ravaged This Iowa City, Officials Discovered

WebThe Tyson Foods pork plant in Waterloo, Iowa. Perhaps no industry has attracted such widespread infamy for its handling of COVID-19 this year as the nation’s …

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As the Cabinet Churns: Who’s Still Standing Among Trump

WebThe Chosen Departed: Who Trump Is Putting in Removing from Fired Now Has in Power. by Rob Weychert, Kyle Edwards and Anjali Tsui. Updated Jan. 16, 2020. …

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“Somebody’s Gotta Help Me”

WebThe team began pinning, lifting and dragging Garcia from the gurney to the bed. “Somebody’s gotta help me. Somebody’s gotta help me. Please, man,” Garcia cried …

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The Price They Pay

WebMedicare rules prohibit her from using drug co-pay coupons, which are commonly used by those with private insurance. And Novo Nordisk, the company that …

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Hell on Wheels: The Rogue World of One of New York’s

WebFatal accidents, off-the-books workers, a union once run by a mobster. The rogue world of one of New York’s major trash haulers. by Kiera Feldman, Voice of …

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When Medical Debt Collectors Decide Who Gets Arrested

WebOn the last Tuesday of July, Tres Biggs stepped into the courthouse in Coffeyville, Kansas, for medical debt collection day, a monthly ritual in this quiet city of …

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Open Burns, Ill Winds

WebOpen Burns, Ill Winds. The Pentagon’s handling of munitions and their waste has poisoned millions of acres, and left Americans to guess at the threat to their health. …

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The Bomb That Went Off Twice

WebI t was a secret wartime project, with a code name and an urgent mission: develop a more powerful bomb, one that could be mass produced in time to fend off the …

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The Chosen: Who Biden Is Putting in Power — ProPublica

WebMarty Walsh, 53, is the well-liked mayor of Boston. He gained political power through his connection to unions. Biden said on the campaign trail that he would be “ he …

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‘What Are We Going to Do About Tyler

WebTyler Haire was locked up at 16. A Mississippi judge ordered that he undergo a mental exam. What happened next is a statewide scandal. On Nov. 17, 2012, Tyler …

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