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Pediatrician who treated immigrant children describes pattern of lapses in medical care in shelters

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Immigrant children walk in outside the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in Homestead, Fla. (AP/Brynn Anderson)

In immigrant children’s shelters, sexual assault cases are open and shut

Michael Grabell, Topher Sanders

This September 2015 image made from U.S. Border Patrol surveillance video shows a U.S. Customs and Border Protection station in Douglas, Ariz. (AP)

“Humanitarian crisis” looms as Arizona threatens to revoke immigrant children shelter licenses

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An immigrant child looks out from a U.S. Border Patrol bus, McAllen, Texas, June 23, 2018. (AP/David J. Phillip)

Immigrant youth shelters: “If you’re a predator, it’s a gold mine”

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Trump vowed to punish companies that moved jobs overseas. Is Congress rewarding them?

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Who would pay $26,000 to work in a chicken plant?

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Is Trump administration’s visa push a way to win health care votes?

Michael Grabell, Justin Elliott

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Can low-wage industries survive without immigrants and refugees?

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U.S. lawmakers call for more oversight of workers’ comp

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Corporate America’s unforgivable new swindle: Leveling workers’ compensation to nothing

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Despite the setbacks he’s faced with his injury and workers’ comp, Dennis Whedbee has tried to maintain an active life, waking early for yard sales, cooking homemade spaghetti sauce and throwing a football with his grandsons. Here, he walks his grandson Haven, 2, back inside their home in Homer City, Pennsylvania.(Jeff Swensen for ProPublica) (Jeff Swensen For Propublica)

“I lost a hand. I didn’t lose a hook”: Inside the crippling decline of workers’ compensation

Michael Grabell, Howard Berkes

California Legislature passes bill to protect temp workers

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Exploited temp workers may finally get some relief

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The terrifying truth about America’s fastest growing workforce

Michael Grabell, Jeff Larson, Olga Pierce

Without full-time jobs, workers flock to temp towns

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Walmart breaks ban on Bangladesh factories

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A Beanie Babies display in Grand Central Terminal, in New York, N.Y., on April 21, 2013. (Krista Kjellman Schmidt, via ProPublica)

Beanie Baby manufacturer’s corrupt labor practices

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TSA to study health effects of X-Ray body scanners

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Did Syria ask Iraq for help retrieving helicopters from Russia?

Michael Grabell, Jeff Larson, Dafna Linzer

Syria President Bashar al-Assad (AP)

Flight records say Russia sent Syria huge sums of cash

Michael Grabell, Jeff Larson, Dafna Linzer

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X-ray body scanners removed from major airports

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Stimulus money going to scofflaw companies

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