Investigating Workers’ Compensation in New York, grantee finds a “long retreat”
New York became the first state in the nation to set up a workers’ compensation system in the wake of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. The program covers…
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Grantee investigation tracks extent of parents surrendering their kids to foster care to get mental-health treatment
Thousands of children in the throes of mental health crises are turned over to foster care each year by parents who can’t access – or afford – the treatment they need…
For Florida Trib/ProPublica partnership, grantee shows that jails keep contracting with private health company despite inmate deaths
Miami-based Armor Correctional Health Services has a long history of complaints of providing subpar care to inmates – and has even been convicted of felony abuse over…
Grantee obtains new evidence that FBI uncovered serious misconduct by top Chicago jail official
When the FBI investigated the Cook County Sherriff’s Office for a ghost-payrolling scheme in 2022, agents uncovered evidence that a high-ranking official had been…
Trump immigration policies deepen humanitarian crisis across continents, grantee finds
U.S. immigration policies in President Donald Trump’s second term have exacerbated a serious humanitarian crisis – stranding many people in remote, dangerous areas where…
A DNA archive critical to identifying missing migrants has itself gone missing, grantees find
For a decade, the nonprofit Colibrí Center for Human Rights worked with state agencies and humanitarian organizations to identify migrants whose remains were found along…
Grantee obtains depositions showing inner working of Disney’s legal battle with the State of Florida
With support from the Fund, Gabrielle Russon obtained 700 pages of depositions from a civil lawsuit stemming from the Walt Disney Company’s battle with Florida Gov. Ron…
Trump cuts have far-reaching impact on Greater Yellowstone, grantee finds
After the Trump Administration created the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, in early 2025, more than 5,800 U.S. Forest Service…
Grantee examines how a railroad and a tariff war are boosting soy production in Brazil, endangering Indigenous lands
The ongoing tariff war between the United States and China has driven up demand for soy produced in Brazil – and record levels of soy production are likely to have a…
Grantee explores toll of low-producing oil wells in Texas
There are thousands of wells around Texas that produce low levels of gas and oil and are leased by companies operating on a shoestring. Different than the problem of…
Murder of Lakota woman is spotlighted in grantee’s ongoing series on missing and murdered Indigenous people
Sahela “Toka Win” Sangrait, who was Mnicoujou Lakota, was killed in 2024, allegedly on an Air Force base in South Dakota – but her friends and family are still fighting…
After grantee reveals data center’s influence campaign in Pennsylvania, local officials oust town leadership
With support from the Fund, Edward Donnelly spent four months investigating efforts to build some of the world’s largest data centers in the borough of Archbald…