NEW: The second installment of MuckRock and 's ongoing series on the U.S. child care industry, "Disappearing Day Care," is now out. Here are some of the key findings: buff.ly/3HvzUAn
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The fellow will cover key developments in public records, helping respond to thorny question challenges while assisting our newsrooms with our collaborative reporting efforts. buff.ly/44j2miZ
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Our second installment in the Disappearing Daycare series: For low-income parents navigating the child care subsidy program in Missouri, bureaucratic hurdles can delay getting the financial help or restrict access to it entirely.
missouriindependent.com/2023/05/03/bur
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Forever thankful for & its good ppl for teaching me about public records/FOIA work when I was their fellow. They helped launch my career & I still use these skills today!
I recommend this for entry-level journos but anyone can apply! Qs? LMK!
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The number of child care assistance applications pending for more than 15 days soared by more than 900% from 2017 to 2022. The backlog has been reduced over the past three months. buff.ly/3AN2Xfh
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Callers with questions about child care, or seeking the required interview for the subsidy, faced a wait time that surpassed two hours from Oct. 2022 - Feb. 2023.
The peak during that period was in January, when the wait time was just under three hours. buff.ly/3AN2Xfh
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Just over 22,000 children are currently enrolled in the child care subsidy program, as of March. Parents generally need to pay the difference between what the provider charges and the state pays is still significant: around $800 per month. buff.ly/3AN2Xfh
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Only very low-income families qualify for child care subsidies in Missouri, and foster kids — leaving assistance out of reach for many who can’t otherwise afford child care. In Missouri, the cutoff is 150% of the federal poverty line. buff.ly/3AN2Xfh
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Almost half of all children in Missouri ages 5 and under, or about 202,000 kids, now live in child care deserts, and found as part of a joint investigation.
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Less than a fourth of the money MuckRock and has tracked, about $114 million so far, is going to ZIP codes in childcare deserts. muckrock.com/news/archives/
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Almost half of all children ages 5 and under live in areas where there are more than three children for every licensed child care slot or, in some cases, no licensed slots at all. muckrock.com/news/archives/
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Almost half of all children in Missouri ages 5 and under, or about 202,000 kids, now live in child care deserts, and MuckRock found as part of a joint investigation, “Disappearing Daycare" from and .
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🧵1/5: In “Disappearing Daycare,” a joint investigation by The Missouri Independent and MuckRock, we found that almost half of all children in Missouri ages 5 and under live in child care deserts
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A #childcare desert is a place w/ >3 kids for every child care slot; look at the data for your community, developed for & 's investigation of how massive aid to expand child care has been used #moleg
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New from MuckRock and : the federal government has burned through more than $1 billion to study #longCovid.
There’s basically nothing to show for it.
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The NIH has little to show for the $1 billion allocated to long Covid research, but concerns are also surfacing over the projects that we know about.
A joint investigation from and .
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Agencies across Alabama average 146 days to respond to a request, according to MuckRock, a non-profit organization dedicated to open governments.
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VCOG All Access News, 4/25/23: OSIG/VSP report; look but don't touch; intra-government #FOIA tension; being remote #opengov #transparency
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The NIH has had $1 billion and more than two years to study long Covid. They haven’t enrolled a single patient in a clinical trial, and treatment studies have been repeatedly delayed. of and I spent months investigating
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In response, the & defended the spending, saying they are making progress but without providing a clear explanation for delays. “The Administration remains committed to addressing the longer-term impacts of the worst public health crisis in a century."
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Clinical trials should have been a priority when Congress first provided the NIH with funds in December 2020, said . He added: “I don’t know that they’ve contributed anything except more confusion.”
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“So far, I don’t think we’ve gotten anything for a billion dollars,” said of the Healthcare Transformation Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. “That is just unacceptable, and it’s a serious dysfunction.”
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There’s no sign that this will change, either: the money is essentially all spent, and the agency isn’t asking Congress for more.
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Adding to the issues: it’s nearly impossible to tell how NIH spent all its money, or who’s to blame for the delays and issues with #LongCovid research, because the agency has obscured the effort’s leadership and financing.
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In fact, experts worry that one of the trials could actually end up harming patients with long Covid, based on experiences in #MECFS.
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It’s only planning a small number of clinical trials to study actual #LongCovid treatments — and those have been delayed for nearly a year.
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The has poured more than $1 billion into researching #LongCovid. But as a new investigation from and shows, it has almost nothing to show for all that money. /Thread buff.ly/40rV4pY
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New with The NIH has poured $1 billion into long Covid research — with little to show for it buff.ly/3osogQf
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