What happens if you don’t have the money to pay your state income tax bill? As the Center for Public Integrity has investigated the impact of state taxes on economic inequality, we kept hearing how ...
The Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act was supposed to be a strong dose of medicine for the ills of heirs’ property — jointly owned land with multiple heirs not documented in wills or deedbooks, ...
JACKSON, Miss. — Amia Edwards lives here because she wants to make a difference. But in this majority-Black city, long starved for funding by the state’s mostly white Legislature, that’s proved a ...
This report is part of a project on drinking water contamination in the United States produced by the Carnegie-Knight News21 program. CAMPTI, La. – Deep in the winding mass of crumbling back streets ...
The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates betrayals of public trust. Sign up to receive our stories. Thousands of medical professionals have billed Medicare at ...
Demonstrators march along Main Street in Abingdon, Va., on July 20, 2007, to raise awareness about the abuse of OxyContin. Since 2000, prescription opioid abuse has claimed the lives of 165,000 ...
Heather Simpson never thought to question vaccines. Her parents vaccinated her when she was a child, and she got tetanus and flu shots as an adult. But when she and her husband were thinking about ...
New York’s Suffolk County had a trash problem. Facing brimming landfills and public pressure, legislators took a first-in-the-nation step: They banned plastic bags. But what the county saw as part of ...
Los Angeles resident Walter Foster, 80, holds up a sign as the California Reparations Task Force meets to hear public input in 2022. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Reading Time: 5 ...
JASPER, Texas — Former Texas prosecutor Guy James Gray keeps a 20-year-old CD in his desk that documents with graphic photos one of the most vicious hate crimes in history – the day James Byrd Jr. was ...
Rita Welch looks at photos of her son, Johnathan. He died on the job at 18 while stripping furniture with methylene chloride. (Joe Dodd/AP Images for the Center for Public Integrity) Reading Time: 25 ...
The American Legislative Exchange Council became the nation’s best-known “model”-bill factory over its four decades by providing more than fill-in-the-blank legislation. This story also appeared in ...