New data shows why the U.S. needs more immigrants
Feb 23, 2024 · As the fight over immigration reached peak chaos in the U.S. Senate earlier this month, the Congressional Budget Office held a press conference nearby. The director’s briefing about the latest economic forecast seemed disconnected from the political drama playing out a few blocks away. But its analysis was closely linked to immigration policy. The nonpartisan […]
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See which states are expanding — or restricting — voting rights
Oct 27, 2023 · In some blue states, meanwhile, the lack of federal progress has led to new or strengthened state versions of a voting rights act. In Michigan, that momentum was driven by citizen initiative after the state’s formerly Republican-controlled legislature blocked expanded access to voting by mail and other measures.
It’s easy to vote in Washington, D.C., but it still doesn’t count
Oct 6, 2022 · In 2020, D.C. had a homelessness rate of 90.4 for every 10,000 people. D.C.’s rate was higher than any state and nearly double New York’s rate of 46.9. Unhoused voters are disadvantaged in a variety of ways.
Fact Check: Obama releases long-form birth certificate to try to ...
May 3, 2011 · President Barack Obama released the long-form version of his birth certificate, yet another piece of concrete evidence that shows he was born in the United States. The White House said he received a special exemption from the Hawaii Department of Health, which keeps the long-form documents confidential. The pdf version of the document can be […]
How four decades of tax cuts fueled inequality
Nov 29, 2022 · The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service reached essentially the same conclusion in 2012 that tax cuts don’t spur growth but do increase income inequality. After Senate Republicans heatedly objected to the report, CRS withdrew it. ERTA charted the course in 1981. It cut the top tax rate from 70% to 50% on so-called unearned income — dividends from stocks and interest on bonds and ...
Behind on state income taxes? Here’s what you need to know.
Dec 14, 2023 · Reading Time: 25 minutes 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 states’ collection practices weighed on lower-income residents.But states typically put fewer specifics on their websites than the IRS does about collection policies ...
Agencies failed to share intelligence on 9/11 terrorists
Dec 10, 2008 · Reading Time: 2 minutes The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and other U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies had pieces of information before the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that, had they been shared, might have led to the unraveling of Al Qaeda’s plot. For example, in July 2001, an FBI agent in Phoenix, Arizona, wrote a memo ...
40 Acres and a Lie Archives – Center for Public Integrity
Jan 31, 2025 · The Center for Public Integrity’s landmark project, 40 Acres and a Lie has taken second place in the annual Philip Meyer Journalism Award from Investigative Reporters and Editors, which recognizes the best use of social science research methods in journalism. Black Americans have been demanding ...
Where are the watchdogs? – Center for Public Integrity
May 4, 2010 · Watchdog list. Click here for a list of the current 73 federal or congressional agencies that hire independent watchdogs to guard against waste, fraud and abuse, protect whistleblowers, and audit the finances of the U.S. government. Some of these watchdogs are appointed by the president and others are independently hired by federal agencies. Currently, at least 15 of these jobs remain vacant ...