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States Fear Critical Funding From FEMA May Be Drying Up
Many states rely on the federal government for the vast majority of their emergency management funding. Now, local leaders are looking for clues about the money — and the future of FEMA itself.
Congress Is Pushing for a Medicaid Work Requirement. Here’s What Happened When Georgia Tried It.
GOP lawmakers want to nationalize Medicaid work requirements to offset Trump’s proposed tax cuts. Yet Georgia’s example shows ...
Tennessee Lawmakers and Lenders Said This Law Would Protect Borrowers. Instead It Trapped Them in Debt.
Borrowers say the lending company Advance Financial encouraged them to borrow back the value of almost all of the payments ...
How Foreign Scammers Use U.S. Banks to Fleece Americans
Asian crime syndicates’ online scams have reached industrial proportions, cheating victims around the world out of more than ...
Senators Demand Investigation Into Canceled VA Contracts, Citing “Damning Reporting From ProPublica”
The senators are calling for a federal watchdog to investigate the Trump administration’s killing of hundreds of VA contracts ...
His Kidney Failed. He’ll Never Know if a Transplant Drug From a Banned Factory Was to Blame.
When Joe DeMayo’s donated kidney started to fail earlier than expected, he didn’t know that the drug he was taking could’ve ...
How Hotels, Once a Last Resort, Became New York’s Default Answer to Homelessness
Statewide spending on hotels has more than tripled in recent years. The shift away from shelters has prevented families from ...
Seven Things to Know About ProPublica’s Investigation of the FDA’s Secret Gamble on Generic Drugs
ProPublica spent 14 months investigating the FDA’s oversight of foreign drugmakers that send medications to the U.S. These ...
ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network Selects Five New Partners for Its 50 State Initiative
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
New York Bans Anonymous Child Welfare Reports
New legislation will require callers to the state child abuse hotline to identify themselves. ProPublica’s reporting in 2023 ...
We Spent a Year Investigating How the FDA Let Risky Drugs Into the U.S. Market
Our investigation exposed a little-known practice inside the FDA that allowed more than 150 drugs or their ingredients into ...
ProPublica Sued the FDA for Withholding Records About the Safety of Generic Drugs
The agency declined to quickly release documents that would identify drugs made at some of the most troubled foreign ...