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Over 1,100 Health Data Breaches, but Few Fines
by Sisi Wei and Charles OrnsteinSince October 2009, health care organizations and their business partners reported 1,142 large-scale data breaches, each affecting at least 500 people, to the U.S....
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Data-Driven Sentencing May Punish the Poor and More in MuckReads Weekly
by Terry Parris Jr."If everybody's getting hooked up, nobody's going to say anything." Federal air marshals may have skipped some "high risk" flights that would not fit into their busy schedule of...
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Podcast: Protecting Your Health Data
by Nicole Collins Bronzan .player_box { display: none; } When hackers breached the IT system of the insurer Anthem, potentially gaining access to 80 million people's records, what exactly, were they...
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Coming Soon: ProPublica Investigates Workers’ Compensation
ProPublicaInsult to InjuryShare on FacebookShare on TwitterDonateFor nearly a century, American workers and their employers had a compact: A guarantee that after a workplace accident, employers would...
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Ebola-infected Nurse Contends Dallas Hospital Violated Her Privacy
by Charles OrnsteinIt was a touching scene, meant to buck up a hospital – and a community – shaken when one of its own nurses was infected with the Ebola virus. Last fall, when Dallas nurse Nina Pham...
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Alleged Patient Safety Kickbacks Lead To $1 Million Settlement
by Marshall AllenDr. Chuck Denham, once a leading voice for patient safety, will pay $1 million to settle civil allegations that he took kickbacks to promote a drug company's product in national...
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New York Legislation Would Make It a Felony to Film Patients Without Prior...
by Charles OrnsteinNewly proposed legislation would make it a felony in New York to film patients receiving medical treatment without prior consent.State Assemblyman Ed Braunstein, a Queens Democrat,...
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Behind Supreme Court’s Obamacare Case, A Secretive Society’s Hidden Hand
by Nina MartinThe Supreme Court has no shortage of potentially precedent-shattering cases on its docket this term. But the one the justices are hearing tomorrow, King v. Burwell, could be the most...
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‘I Try to Forget’
by Michael GrabellProPublicaInsult to InjuryShare on FacebookShare on TwitterCommentDonate‘I Try to Forget’Photographs by Patrick T. Fallon for ProPublica, captions by Michael GrabellMarch 4, 2015Joel...
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The Demolition of Workers’ Comp
by Michael GrabellProPublicaInsult to InjuryShare on FacebookShare on TwitterCommentDonateMatt Rota for ProPublicaThe Demolition of Workers’ CompOver the past decade, states have slashed workers’...
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What Happens When Americans Are Hurt on the Job? Help ProPublica Investigate
. by Terry Parris Jr.In Alabama, if you lose an eye during the course of a workday, the most you’ll receive under the state’s workers’ compensation laws is $27,280. If you work in Pennsylvania, that...
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Yes, Black America Fears the Police. Here’s Why.
by Nikole Hannah-JonesThis story was co-published with Politico Magazine.Last July 4, my family and I went to Long Island to celebrate the holiday with a friend and her family. After eating some...
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Methodology for Workers’ Comp Benefits: How Much is a Limb Worth?
by Michael Grabell, Cynthia Cotts and Lena Groeger,For the interactive graphic Workers’ Comp Benefits: How Much is a Limb Worth? ProPublica researched laws for all 50 states, the District of Columbia...
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How Much Is Your Arm Worth? Depends On Where You Work
by Michael GrabellProPublicaInsult to InjuryShare on FacebookShare on TwitterCommentDonateJustin Volz for ProPublicaHow Much Is Your Arm Worth? Depends On Where You WorkEach state determines its own...
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Cuomo Obscura: Shady Moments During New York’s ‘Most Transparent’ Administration
by Leticia MirandaWhen New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo took office, he promised to operate "the most transparent" administration in history. The night of his victory, he said, "The people want a government...
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OSHA Report Echoes ProPublica and NPR’s Workers’ Comp Findings
by Michael GrabellNearly a year ago, ProPublica set out to investigate the extent of changes to America’s workers’ compensation system and the impact they were having on injured workers. Around the...
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It Wasn’t Just the Beating That Was Shocking. It Was the Story Getting Out....
by Terry Parris Jr.It wasn't shocking that he was beaten. It was shocking that the story got out. The most violent encounters at Attica, a maximum-security prison in New York with a brutal history,...
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Podcast: Reporting on Workers’ Comp
by Nicole Collins Bronzan .player_box { display: none; } If you’re like most Americans, you probably don’t think about the ins and outs of workers’ comp -- until you get injured on the job. Then,...
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Washington Legislature Moves to Limit Schools Pinning Down and Isolating Kids
by Annie WaldmanA bill that would limit Washington public schools restraining or isolating students is working its way through the state Legislature, making it at least the fourth state to move to...
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A Stress Test For The New York Fed
by Jake BernsteinLately, a debate has erupted among Congress, bankers and the media about whether the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has accumulated too much power since the financial crisis and...
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