Immigrants’ Resentment Over New Arrivals Helped Boost Trump’s Popularity With #Latino Voters — Across the U.S., Latino #immigrants who’ve been in the country a long time felt that asylum-seekers got preferential treatment. “Those of us who have been here for years get nothing,” said one woman from Mexico who has lived in Wisconsin for decades. #News #Trump #Immigration #USPolitics #Democrats #Politics #Biden
UPDATE: Hours after this ProPublica story published, #Lincare announced internally that “effective immediately, Greg McCarthy is no longer Chief Operating Officer. Greg is leaving Lincare to pursue other opportunities.” #News #Health #Business #CPAP #Healthcare #Insurance #Safety #FDA
Illinois’ AG Said It’s Illegal for Schools to Use Police to Ticket Students. But His Office Told Only One District. — Despite the attorney general’s declaration that Illinois schools should stop using police to discipline students, officers statewide continue to ticket kids with costly fines. One lawmaker will again pursue legislation to end the practice. #News #Schools #Education #Law #Students #Police #Illinois
A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. #Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments. — Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages. #News #Health #Abortion #Miscarriage #Pregnancy #Healthcare #ReproductiveRights
Segregation Academies in #Mississippi Are Benefiting From Public Dollars, as They Did in the 1960s == ProPublica identified 20 #schools in the state that likely opened as segregation academies and have received almost $10 million over the past six years from the state’s #tax credit donation program. #News #Education #School #Students #PublicSchools #SchoolVouchers #Vouchers #Government #Race
How Lincare Cashed In on the Disastrous #Recall of Philips Breathing Machines — at the Expense of #Patients == Amid reports of thousands of injuries and hundreds of deaths, Lincare was supposed to supply the most ailing patients with new CPAP machines, but instead diverted the devices to new customers who would deliver greater profits for the company. #News #Business #Health #Healthcare #Insurance #Safety #FDA #Lincare
#RussVought, a #Project2025 architect, is reportedly set to repeat as head of Office of Management and Budget after serving in the position for Trump's first term. We recently unearthed private videos of Vought's plans for "traumatically" razing the civil service, siccing military on protestors, defunding environmental protections, and generally helping #Trump accumulate more executive power than any president before him. #News #USPolitics #Politics #Government
Cities Say They Store Property Taken From #Homeless Encampments. People Rarely Get Their Things Back. == Storage programs are meant to protect people’s property rights and allow them to reclaim their possessions. But they rarely accomplish either objective, according to a ProPublica investigation of cities with the largest homeless populations. #Housing #Unhoused #HumanRights #Police #LawEnforcement #Property #News #Government
#Georgia officials have dismissed all members of the state's Maternal Mortality Review Committee, which is charged with investigating deaths of #pregnant women, in response to ProPublica's reporting on the deaths of Amber Thurman and Candi Miller. #Abortion #Pregnancy #Women #Mothers #Families #RoeVWade #Health #HealthCare
In Five Years, #Chicago Has Barely Made Progress on Its Court-Ordered #Police Reforms. Here’s Why. — Chicago police agreed to judicial oversight in 2019. Since then, a series of mayors and police chiefs let efforts languish and no one in a position of oversight has pushed forcefully to keep the process on track, WTTW News and ProPublica found. #News #Law #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #Crime #ConsentDecree