The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. These stories are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Stories are not available for download but can be easily ordered by contacting the Resource Center:
Search results for "child poverty" ...
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60 Minutes: Hard Times Generation I
A report on how hunger and homelessness affect children and their families.
Tags: recession; poverty; unemployment; child poverty; homeless; shelter;
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60 Minutes: Hard Times Generation II
A story on the Metzger family, one of many homeless families in Florida that have been forced out of their homes to live in cars or on the street, and how they maintain a normal life despite this unconventional living situation.
Tags: recession; poverty; unemployment; child poverty; homeless; shelter;
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Who Killed Aiyana Stanley-Jones?
LeDuff investigates who death Aiyana Stanely-Jones, a seven-year-old who was shot and killed when Detroit police raided an East Side home where she slept on the couch. Police were looking for a murder suspect, and Aiyana ended up dead. The story "is a powerful heartbreaking elegy for a child, a city and our civic duties."
Tags: crime; murder; Detroit; poverty; police reports; FOIA; homicide
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How Much Is This Child Worth?
This series focuses on the discrepancies in school funding among the 537 schools examined by the magazine. They found a range of $2,200 to $8,600 in per-pupil funding for elementary schools;the range was $5,400 to $16,800 at the high school level. They also found that magnet schools who had selective enrollment practices and schools with better-off students tended to get more than their fair share. They used a tool they obtained from the Annenberg Institute for School Reform to analyze school district resources.
Tags: Arne Duncan; Chicago schools; federal Title 1 funds; school security; poverty funds; school budgets; Annenberg Institute for School Reform
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Economic Opportunity Board
"The stories dealt with shoddy accounting practices, poor administration and inconsistent programming at the EOB, created in 1964 to fight poverty. With nearly $60 million in its 2003 budget, the organization lacked basic records of how its money was spent, broke many of its own by-laws in favoring its own board members, and kept poor members of the community in the dark when problems in their programs occurred, such as overcharging rent in low - income housing or losing a child on a Head Start Bus."
Tags: welfare; poverty; housing assistance; administration; child care subsidies
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Welfare reform: Many go off rolls, but still stay poor
An Observer analysis of welfare data from nine Charlotte-area counties revealed the welfare reforms of 1997 to be less successful than some politicians claimed. Although caseloads have been trimmed in half over the last decade, taxpayers still haven't saved any money. Monthly checks are redirected into child-care subsidies and other programs that help former recipients. After leaving welfare, many recipients see little improvement in their lives. People who exhaust their welfare benefits are having a tougher time finding jobs than their predecessors, and those who do find jobs often live below the poverty line.
Tags: Computer-assisted reporting; CAR; welfare; food stamps
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Show and Tell Tape #2
2004 IRE National Conference (Atlanta) Show and Tell Tape #2 features the following stories: 1)Randy Travis (WAGA-Atlanta) Modeling company Options Talent Group placed photos on their Web site and claimed their services would help clients become models for $500 a month, but agencies rarely took models from Options. 2)Darcy Spears (KVBC-Las Vegas) This hidden camera investigation into government found employees slacking on taxpayers' money by taking too long, and too many smoke breaks. 3)Mark Greenblatt (WBBH-Ft. Meyers) This investigation exposes a pet cemetery, widely used by veterinarians in the area. The cemetery does not fulfill its promises of dignified pet burials, and leaves dead animals exposed above the ground. 4)David Schechter (WCCO-Minneapolis) Profits from reservation casino gambling have garnered millions for certain tribes. Despite this, some Native Americans are left tribeless and living in poverty. 5)Steve Chamraz (KCTV-Kansas City) The investigation found Kansas City police aren't effectively tracking Internet predators, and lack computer resources to catch up. 6)Angie Moreschi (WTHR-Indianapolis) Indiana Social Services failed to research one family, resulting in a father with a history of abuse, who beat his child to death.
Tags: tape; show and tell; investigative; Atlanta; no transcripts; IRE
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"A crisis in foster care: Hardships prevalent for those raising children's children
This investigation found that nearly a third more New York grandparents are raising their grandchildren than a decade ago, and of those, a disproportionate number have fallen into poverty. An unresponsive child-welfare system has forced these grandparents into making a tough decision: Place their grandchildren into foster care and become foster parents themselves in order to receive government aid, or ignore the foster care system and scrounge to support their families.
Tags: grandparents; grandchildren; foster care; poverty; census; child welfare; adoption; Children and Family Services; Department of Social Services; Department of Health and Human Services; guardianship; CAR; computer-assisted reporting
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Neediest Kids Get Newest Teachers
This analysis of personnel records "showed that the elementary schools with the highest poverty rates in South Puget Sound's major urban school districts have a higher proportion of beginning teachers than the lowest poverty schools in the same districts." Similar situations occur throughout America. This teacher experience gap might have serious consequences beyond its impact on individual children.
Tags: No Child Left Behind; education; classroom
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Children Left Behind
The reporters set out to assess the problems children in Cleveland face. They managed to uncover hazards that even the public officials and community activists who had dedicated their careers to these issues. for example, they found that half a million Ohio Children live next door to a toxic waste site. Another finding was that nearly 1 million children live in poor housing, putting them at greater risk for fires, accidents, and environmental health hazards such as lead poisoning and asthma. They also discovered that babies born to teenage mothers are much more likely to be premature, and these babies had cost the state roughly $161 million dollars in five year. Another finding was that children of color were in most danger, they account for about a quarter of all child deaths.
Tags: toxic waste; poor housing; fires; accidents; environmental health; teenage mothers; teen pregnancy; premature babies; inner-city neighborhoods; Guatemala; African American children; child deaths; Ohio Environmental Protection Agency; Planned Parenthood; Federation for Community Planning; Ohio Department of Health; lead poisoning; poor housing; asthma; Child deaths; food banks; poverty; Rocking Horse Center; birth rate; child mortality rate; hazardous waste sites; Sherwin-Williams; Benjamin Moore; Environmental Health Watch in Cleveland; pollution; youth prison; Youth Health Empowerment Project; STD's; birth control