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The Cruelest Cuts series

On Sunday and Monday, The Charlotte Observer published a two-part series detailing the risks to young workers in dangerous jobs. The stories showed that federal child labor enforcement has waned […]
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Dietary supplements contain undisclosed amounts of prescription drugs

Alison Young of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution found that some dietary supplements, which are not subject to government regulation, contain amounts of undisclosed prescription drugs, as well as food allergens, bacteria […]
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DeKalb county loses thousands of traffic tickets

Cameron McWhirter of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that DeKalb County's traffic court has lost the hundreds of thousands of citations. While no one knows how much the misplaced records could […]
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Health care system allows immigrants to fall through the cracks

Deborah Sontag of The New York Times continued the paper's "Getting Tough" series with an examination of some hospitals' practice of repatriating immigrant patients to their native countries without consent. […]
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Surge in Democrats turns Dutchess County, N.Y. blue

In October, Dutchess County went from having a Republican majority among registered voters to a Democratic one for the first time in the county's history. On Nov. 2, the Poughkeepsie […]
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Charter schools paid millions for absent students

An investigation by Thomas Hargrove and Gavin Off of Scripps News Service found that "taxpayers pay millions of dollars every month to educate tens of thousands of high school students […]
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Union workers double-dip costing taxpayers over $1.6 million

An investigation by David Andreatta of the Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, N.Y.) revealed that "more than $1.6 million in taxpayer money was paid last year to municipal employees in Monroe […]
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Over 2,000 voters in Allen County, Ind. also registered in Florida

The Journal Gazette in Fort Wayne, Ind. found that 2,172 voters in Indiana's Allen County had names and birthdates identical to those in Florida. The newspaper performed its analysis cross-referencing […]
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California slow to investigate nurses with criminal backgrounds

Expanding on an article published in October, ProPublica's Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein, in conjunction with the Los Angeles Times, have found that the California nursing board has been slow […]
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Airline regulations may misrepresent animal deaths

Alison Young of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution found that the airline regulation language protecting animal safety excludes the thousands of animals transported by breeders, farms, laboratories and pet stores. The U.S. […]
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