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Yuliana Rocha Zamarripa's workers' comp claim for a serious knee injury at work prompted her arrest. The mother of three spent the next year cycling through county and immigration jails.

National

Florida Lawmakers To Review Law Targeting Injured Undocumented Workers

1:34pm August 24, 2017

Employers and insurers were using the statute to deny workers' comp benefits, an NPR and ProPublica investigation found. Republican state Sen. Anitere Flores is now calling for action.

Yuliana Rocha Zamarripa's workers' comp claim for a serious knee injury at work prompted her arrest. She was shuffled from county to immigration jails for a year and blames the sexual abuse of her daughter on her inability to protect her at home.

They Got Hurt At Work — Then They Got Deported

11:12pm August 16, 2017

A joint investigation by NPR and ProPublica shows how a loophole in Florida law has led to the arrest and even deportation of undocumented immigrants after they suffer legitimate injuries on the job.

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U.S. Moves To Amend Secret Mustard Gas Tests On Veterans

4:31pm August 09, 2017

by Joseph Shapiro

A wrong against a group of World War II veterans is about to be righted. There will be new acknowledgment that tens of thousands of troops were used as human test subjects for the Army's experiments with one of the most dreaded weapons of the time — mustard gas. And for the few who still survive, there's a new promise of health benefits.

Marie McCausland holds her newborn shortly after delivery. A ProPublica/NPR story about preeclampsia prompted her to seek emergency treatment when she developed symptoms days after giving birth.

Health & Safety

'If You Hemorrhage, Don't Clean Up': Advice From Mothers Who Almost Died

9:51am August 03, 2017

We've heard from 3,100 women who survived life-threatening complications of pregnancy or childbirth. They told us what they wished they had known and what they would say to new and expectant mothers.

A man walks into the building of the Internal Revenue Service, which oversees the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program, in Washington, D.C., on March 10, 2016.

National

Housing Program Worth Billions Lacks 'Basic Accountability,' Says GAO

6:13pm August 01, 2017

by Laura Sullivan

Government auditors can't determine if the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program costs too much because the program lacks adequate IRS oversight, according to testimony before Congress.

National

Federal Report Criticizes Harsh Treatment Of Lewisburg Prisoners

7:58pm July 13, 2017

by Joseph Shapiro

A Justice Department review says the federal prison violates its own rules that men with serious mental illnesses should be removed from its Special Management Unit.

Reading, Writing And Fracking? What The Oil Industry Teaches Oklahoma Students

12:30pm July 11, 2017

by Joe Wertz

Oklahoma's oil industry is spending millions on science lessons for public schools. But environmentalists say omitting climate change leaves students unprepared.

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U.S. Hospitals Struggle To Protect Mothers When Childbirth Turns Deadly

6:24pm July 05, 2017

A joint NPR and ProPublica investigation finds the U.S. medical system can be unprepared when the complications of childbirth turn deadly.

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A display case at NIOSH shows a normal lung and a diseased black lung, caused by inhaling coal dust and other harmful particles while coal mining.

NPR Continues To Find Hundreds Of Cases Of Advanced Black Lung

1:25pm July 01, 2017

by Howard Berkes

Black lung results from exposure to coal dust. Progressive massive fibrosis is an especially aggressive form, blamed on inhalation of silica dust from the cutting of quartz rock and coal together.

Attorney Philip Fornaci, project director of the D.C. Prisoners' Project of the Washington Lawyers' Committee, and Stacey Litner, the advocacy director for the D.C. Prisoners' Rights Project.

National

Lawsuit Says Lewisburg Prison Counsels Prisoners With Crossword Puzzles

4:03pm June 15, 2017

by Joseph Shapiro

At a notorious federal prison, inmates with mental illness are taken off their medications and given coloring books and crossword puzzles for therapy, according to a lawsuit filed this month.