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19 Nov 2020, 7:36 am by Immigration Prof
Melissa Sanchez for ProPublica Illinois (co-published with Mother Jones and El País) tells a sobering story of immigrant teens working dangerous jobs at night to pay off debts to smugglers and attending school in the day. [read post]
4 Aug 2021, 3:00 am by Paul Caron
Lawrence Zelenak (Duke), 1924, 2021: Taxes of the Ultrarich, and Mark-to-Market Reforms, 172 Tax Notes Fed. 583 (July 26, 2021): In this article, Zelenak tells the story of Treasury’s disclosures of the income tax payments of plutocrats almost a century ago, which mirror the recent ProPublica revelations of the income... [read post]
26 Oct 2011, 1:04 pm by Securites Lawprof
Well worth reading over at ProPublica: Jesse Eisinger's Why the SEC Won’t Hunt Big Dogs , a blistering critique of the SEC's recent $285 million settlement with Citigroup over misleading investors by selling a CDO created out of mortgage securities... [read post]
24 Sep 2015, 3:52 am by Reproductive Rights
AL.com with ProPublica: Alabama Leads Nation in Turning Pregnant Women into Felons, by Nina Martin: This is a comprehensive analysis of Alabama's "chemical endangerment of a child" law, the country's toughest criminal law banning prenatal drug use. [read post]
8 Dec 2022, 11:39 am by CrimProf BlogEditor
From ProPublica, via NACDL's news update: Two years ago, the DEA arrested a Mexican general, hoping to lay bare the high-level corruption at the heart of organized crime. [read post]
9 Feb 2013, 1:00 am by Paul Caron
New York Times DealBook: Time to Revive the Financial Transactions Tax, by Jesse Eisinger (ProPublica): The unwritten rule of Washington debates about taxing and spending is to never consider anything new. [read post]
16 May 2019, 10:00 am by Paul Caron
ProPublica, TurboTax and H&R Block Saw Free Tax Filing as a Threat — and Gutted It: Despite signing a deal with the IRS that pledged they would help tens of millions of Americans file taxes for free, tax software giants Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, and H&R Block instead deliberately... [read post]
4 Jan 2020, 6:00 am by Paul Caron
Following up on my previous posts (links below): ProPublica, IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not to Compete With TurboTax: Finding free online tax filing should be easier this year for millions of Americans. [read post]
1 Sep 2017, 11:12 am by Dipal Parmar
The law came into the spotlight following an investigation by ProPublica and NPR to evaluate [...] [read post]
4 Dec 2019, 3:12 am by Immigration Prof
ProPublica, co-published this article with The New York Times, which prvides an explanation. [read post]
11 Aug 2017, 3:41 am by Immigration Prof
Thompson in ProPublica in an article "Sikhs in America: A History of Hate" looks at the history of hate crimes against Sikh Americans. [read post]
26 Mar 2013, 2:43 pm by Paul Caron
Philadelphia Inquirer: How Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing, by Liz Day (ProPublica): Imagine filing your income taxes in five minutes — and for free. [read post]
8 May 2013, 1:00 pm by immigrationprof
Michael Grabell of ProPublica reports how some of America's best-known companies and largest temp agencies benefit from—and tacitly collaborate with—an underworld of labor brokers, known as "raiteros," who charge workers fees, pushing their pay below minimum wage. [read post]
22 Aug 2022, 1:55 pm by Rick Hasen
The Lever/ProPublica: An elderly, ultra-secretive Chicago businessman has given the largest known donation to a political advocacy group in U.S. history — worth $1.6 billion — and the recipient is one of the prime architects of conservatives’ efforts to… Continue reading [read post]
19 Apr 2010, 4:43 pm by Mike Scarcella
Bryan Cave partner James Cole, a former Justice Department public corruption prosecutor during the Clinton administration, is a leading candidate to become the next deputy attorney general, according to a report from ProPublica today. [read post]
4 Apr 2014, 2:53 pm by Reproductive Rights
ProPublica: Judge Throws Out Murder Charge in Mississippi Fetal Harm Case, by Nina Martin: The ruling means that the woman whose drug use had her facing a possible life term can at most be charged with manslaughter in the death... [read post]
18 Aug 2010, 9:35 am by constitutional lawblogger
Federal district court judges have ruled against the government in 8 of 15 Guantanamo detainees' habeas cases because of interrogations of detainees and witnesses under "questionable circumstances," ProPublica reports in its latest installment in its ongoing investigation of detention at... [read post]