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Agencies can’t always tell who’s dead and who’s not, so benefit checks keep coming

“In the past few years, Social Security paid $133 million to beneficiaries who were deceased. The federal employee retirement system paid more than $400 million to retirees who had passed […]
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Special Report: Help wanted in Fukushima: Low pay, high risks and gangsters

“In reviewing Fukushima working conditions, Reuters interviewed more than 80 workers, employers and officials involved in the unprecedented nuclear clean-up. A common complaint: the project's dependence on a sprawling and […]
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Officers facing discipline claim disability for big cost to Milwaukee

“As the district attorney investigated him for allegedly beating a handcuffed suspect, Milwaukee Police Detective Rodolfo Gomez Jr. applied for duty disability retirement, saying stress had left him unable to […]
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Hospitals Spend Small Fractions of Revenue on Charity Care

“Despite a congressman’s recent assurance that many hospitals “do the work for free,” Oklahoma’s hospitals spend less than 3 percent of their net patient revenues on charity care on average, […]
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Waste Lands: America's forgotten nuclear legacy

Seven decades after the Manhattan Project turned the nation into a “factory” frantically focused on building the world’s first nuclear bomb, this Wall Street Journal investigation scrutinizes the government’s efforts […]
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Is Funeral Home Chain SCI's Growth Coming at the Expense of Mourners?

In the death-care industry, as practitioners call it, SCI casts a long shadow. Based in Houston and publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYX), it operates more than 1,800 funeral […]
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A Yellow Card, Then Unfathomable Violence, in Brazil

Two killings in the Brazilian neighborhood of Centro de Meio over a soccer match gone wrong left the country spinning, the New York Times reports. The killings were widely reported […]
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Ring of Fire

Thousands of veretans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are complaining of breathing problems, gastrointestinal disorders, and even rare cancers, the Verge reports. Some have already died of these ailments. […]
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Some non-profits found to keep significant losses quiet

Charities and other non-profits often try to keep their losses quiet to avoid spooking donors, but a Washington Post investigation by Joe Stephens and Mary Pat Flaherty used a new […]
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California agencies gamble on pension bonds to cover debts – and lose

Desperate to cover a $40 million shortfall in its pension fund for retired police officers and firefighters, the city of Richmond, Calif., turned to an exotic loan, the Center for […]
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