The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates betrayals of public trust. Sign up to receive our stories. WALLACE, N.C. — On nice days, Elsie Herring can sink back into her ...

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Iowa eliminated nine days of early voting. New Hampshire took away ballot drop boxes. And Georgia made providing water to voters waiting in line a crime. In many states, nearly all controlled by ...

What happens if you don’t have the money to pay your state income tax bill? As the Center for Public Integrity has investigated the impact of state taxes on economic inequality, we kept hearing how ...

Los Angeles resident Walter Foster, 80, holds up a sign as the California Reparations Task Force meets to hear public input in 2022. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Reading Time: 5 ...

Sixteen-year-old Horlandina Lopez-Perez left her aunt’s home in the middle of the night on Oct. 1, 2022, with her four-month-old son and a few baby clothes. Alexander Perez-Méndez, 17, thanked his ...

JACKSON, Miss. — Amia Edwards lives here because she wants to make a difference. But in this majority-Black city, long starved for funding by the state’s mostly white Legislature, that’s proved a ...

Terri Bartlett looks at a framed pictured of her deceased son Michael hanging on a wall of her McHenry, Ill., home. Two years after the overdose that killed her 21-year-old son, Bartlett traveled to ...

Protecting people’s health from environmental hazards, Maricela Mares-Alatorre and her family found out the hard way, is a never-ending fight. She was in high school in the late 1980s when her parents ...

Is your neighborhood choked with pollution or facing other environmental woes that you think are discriminatory? You can write to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to request an intervention.

This report is part of a project on drinking water contamination in the United States produced by the Carnegie-Knight News21 program. CAMPTI, La. – Deep in the winding mass of crumbling back streets ...

This article was published in partnership with Stateline. The first installment of a new national data release that will help journalists and researchers analyze polling place accessibility was ...