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‘Nobody really knows’ where to find the right care after a sexual assault
Subscribe on Google | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon. In nursing school, Norah Lusk already knew she wanted to work with sexual assault survivors. She had seen how this part of the health care system was “sorely lacking” through victim-blaming, long wait times and a shortage of specialized practitioners.
Seeking care after a sexual assault
Seek medical attention as soon as possible after being raped or sexually assaulted. Receiving care from a sexual assault nurse examiner is ideal. They can conduct a sexual assault forensic exam, which can result in more thorough evidence for law enforcement and better health outcomes. If possible, try not to...
Center for Public Integrity inks another milestone deal with union
The Center for Public Integrity and the union representing its newsroom and business-side staff today have signed the nonprofit organization’s second collective bargaining agreement. This unanimous ratification reaffirms a shared commitment by the union and Public Integrity to uphold the principles of fairness, inclusivity and transparency — values that...
The Heist: Season 3
Nate Bradford, Jr. and other Black farmers and ranchers are fighting to preserve a type of rural, Black agricultural life. But the past keeps blocking their future. In the third season of The Heist, we follow Bradford’s fight to survive against the long, documented history of government discrimination against Black farmers.
Season 3: The Heist trailer transcript
It’s a hot Saturday morning in Eastern Oklahoma. This part of the country was once Oklahoma’s Black Belt — a historic center of Black ranching. I’m here with a local rancher named Nate Bradford Jr. at his corral: a cluster of pens on rolling, grassy land where he takes care of his cattle.
Striking auto workers want a four-day workweek. It makes sense.
Thousands of auto workers are on strike over pay raises, healthcare and pension benefits. It’s the most aggressive move by the United Auto Workers in modern history, targeting Detroit’s biggest car makers all at once. Yet none of the union’s demands has grabbed more attention than its call...
Katherine Hapgood joins Public Integrity as Charles Lewis fellow
Katherine Hapgood has joined the staff of the Center for Public Integrity as this year’s Charles Lewis American University fellow. She’ll be focusing in part on the nonprofit investigative news organization’s work on access to democracy issues ahead of the 2024 election. Originally from Des Moines, Iowa,...
Jovi Dai joins Public Integrity as local data journalist
Zhaozhou (Jovi) Dai has joined the Center for Public Integrity as a data journalist supporting the investigative nonprofit newsroom’s partnership with the Central Valley Journalism Collaborative in California. Dai has worked as a data reporter at Storybench, a chatbot developer at the Boston Globe for The Emancipator, a reporter...
‘If you don’t count us, we don’t count’: the effort to queer the census
During the 2010 census, some responses were submitted to the government with bright pink stickers on the envelopes. The labels carried a request for the Census Bureau: include LGBTQ+ identities in the questionnaire. This grassroots effort was carried out by the National LGBTQ Task Force, a nonprofit that organizes and...
America’s state supreme courts don’t look like America
Over the last three-plus decades, America’s state supreme courts have become less — not more — reflective of the nation’s racial and ethnic makeup. That’s according to a Center for Public Integrity analysis of data from the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law and academics James Gibson and Michael Nelson. The data shows that in 1990, 92% of state high court justices were white — a figure that meant white justices were overrepresented by 16 percentage points when compared to the demographics of the nation as a whole.
Taking the highway to right wrongs of the past in urban areas
Roads might not seem like an obvious solution to structural inequalities. But for Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, addressing those inequalities requires restoring Black and brown communities torn apart by freeways and highways during the building boom of the mid-20th century. Over the last year, Buttigieg has crossed the country visiting...
Public Integrity, partners win award for work on student homelessness
A collaborative Center for Public Integrity investigation that put a sobering number on local school districts’ failure to help homeless students — and showed ways to improve — is being honored with the Stewart B. McKinney Award recognizing contributions to the understanding of homelessness in the U.S.
Homeless students needed help. Schools showed them the door.
Subscribe on Google | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon. The two boys should have been in elementary school. But for 71 days, the Bristol Borough School District in suburban Philadelphia would not enroll them. Attorneys for the students later explained they were newcomers. They first lived with a relative...
What we know about Maryland’s homeless education dispute process
Our investigation into Pennsylvania schools shows the costs to kids when school officials disagree with parents and other guardians about which homeless education protections, if any, their children are entitled to receive. Those kinds of disputes are not unique to Pennsylvania. School system personnel in Maryland also doubted guardians’ claims...
In a historic Black business district, ‘death by a thousand cuts’
JACKSON, Miss. — Farish Street has an all-too-familiar story. Once a booming Black-owned entertainment and business district that drew Black customers from all over Mississippi, it struggled after segregation ended. Today, it suffers from the same blight and infrastructure issues as many other Jackson neighborhoods — and far too many once-segregated communities across the country.
Public Integrity journalists win Nonprofit Newcomer, Breaking Barriers awards
The Center for Public Integrity has won the Institute for Nonprofit News’ Breaking Barriers Award, and Audience Engagement Editor Ashley Clarke has been named Nonprofit Newcomer of the Year. At an awards ceremony in Philadelphia Wednesday, Clarke was honored for helping transform the mission, workplace culture and partnerships of...
The long struggle over taxing the rich
ABERDEEN, Wash. — Under an overcast sky, Patty Flores led a group of colleagues to an empty lot in the mobile home park where she lived. A bare patch of grass traced the outline of a home set ablaze in an electrical fire. She saw it as a symptom...
State tax systems contribute to inequality. These states are doubling down.
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 steep challenge. The city’s recent water crisis came after years of chronic underfunding of Jackson’s...
Fundraising ‘schemes’ investigated by Public Integrity lead to arrests
Two men investigated by the Center for Public Integrity for a story about groups that fundraise for causes like childhood leukemia but keep virtually all the money have been charged in connection with “schemes to defraud donors,” according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.
‘Disability is an often forgotten piece of the court’s docket’
In the past year, the Supreme Court has made several decisions that have radically reshaped essential rights for Americans spanning from abortion access to gun rights to the separation of church and state. The higher court rulings have prompted an array of analyses of how some of these decisions will...
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