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High radon levels existed in Ann Arbor City Hall for more than 15 years

Reports dating back to the early 1990s indicate that top city officials were aware of high radon levels in the basement of Ann Arbor's city hall where many police officers […]
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Thai Workers Victims of Human Trafficking In Utah

Lee Davidson reported how Thai workers recruited to work on Utah pig and chicken farms were victims of human trafficking. Read "A Story of Modern Slavery in Utah."
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Safety practices at coal mines vary throughout U.S.

An investigation by Dan Barry, Ian Urbina and Clifford Krauss, of The New York Times, shows wide discrepancies in safety practices at coal mines throughout the United States. Mine disasters, […]
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Shut out of Social Security

Mike Chalmers of The News Journal in Wilmington, Del., found a pattern of "denial and delay" among administrative law judges who have the power to grant or deny Social Security […]
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Rulings by California's worker safety appeals board questioned

A Los Angeles Times investigation found that the Cal-OSHA Appeals Board "has repeatedly reduced or dismissed penalties levied by Cal-OSHA over the last few years, even in situations in which […]
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Series exposes conditions of aging mentally retarded workers

Clark Kauffman of the Des Moines Register follows up on the newspaper's initial, exclusive stories about mentally retarded processing plant workers who spent 40 years living in an aging Iowa […]
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New York's failing workers' compensation system

Steven Greenhouse of The New York Times reports on an investigation into New York state's workers' compensation system uncovering delays, fraudulent claims, and questionable rulings. Employees feel the system is […]
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Juvenile center supervisor used staff doctor to get painkillers

A 10-month investigation by producer Lauren Sweeney and reporter Melissa Yeager at WINK-Fort Meyers helped change policy at Florida's Department of Juvenile Justice.  A worker at a juvenile justice center for […]
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Texas company exploited disabled workers

In an exclusive story, the Des Moines Register reported that a company had been sending mentally disabled Texans to work at a meat-processing plant in West Liberty, Iowa, for 34 […]
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Foreign workers hired as banks failed

"Major U.S. banks sought government permission to bring thousands of foreign workers into the country for high-paying jobs even as the system was melting down last year and Americans were […]
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