How “work requirements” spawned a lucrative industry profiting off people in need.
Money and Politics
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The Welfare-to-Work Industrial Complex
How “work requirements” spawned a lucrative industry profiting off people in need.
Posted inAccountability, Border Patrol, Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement, Money and Politics, National Security, The Wall
We’re suing the government over border wall spending records
With so much taxpayer money at stake and few details about how it would be used, we wanted to know how much the government had already spent.
Posted inAccountability, Money and Politics, The Paradise Papers
The isles are alive with the sound of music
Royalties from thousands of American classics are tucked away tax-free.
Posted inAccountability, Money and Politics, The Paradise Papers
Big US political donors play the offshore game
A leak of offshore records provides a glimpse into the finances of Republican and Democratic contributors.
Posted inAccountability, Money and Politics, The Paradise Papers
Leaked documents expose secret tale of Apple’s offshore island hop
The inside story of Apple’s hunt for a new tax avoidance strategy is among the disclosures emerging from a leak of secret corporate records.
Posted inAccountability, Money and Politics, The Paradise Papers
Offshore trove exposes Trump-Russia links and piggy banks of the wealthiest 1 percent
A new leak of confidential records reveals the financial hideaways of iconic brands and power brokers across the political spectrum.
Posted inAccountability, Money and Politics, The Paradise Papers
Kremlin-owned firms linked to major investments in Twitter and Facebook
A major investor in Twitter and Facebook had financial ties to two Russian government-owned firms.
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The Paradise Papers
This week, Reveal journalists team up with The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists for a new bombshell: the Paradise Papers.
Posted inAccountability, Housing, Money and Politics, The Trump Era
Nominee for banking post meets resistance due to fraud settlement
A whistleblower says “there shouldn’t even be a hearing” for Joseph Otting, Trump’s choice for the nation’s top banking regulator, due to an $89 million federal fraud settlement.