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The easy way to request and share public records, making government more transparent and democracies more informed. 📧info@muckrock.com or @muckrock@journa.host
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MuckRock is looking for a FOIA Fellow to make transparency their beat. 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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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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Navigating the program, which was designed to help those who are worst-off afford child care to be able to work, can itself become akin to a second job. Part two of "Disappearing Daycare," a joint investigation w/ #moleg #mogov via
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In the 2nd part of our joint investigation w/ into the roots of the child care crisis in Missouri, delves into the bureaucratic hurdles plaguing a subsidy program designed to assist low-income families pay for daycare. #moleg #mogov
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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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An investigation by & found that despite hundreds of millions in federal pandemic relief money, child care facilities in Missouri face huge staffing shortages and parents are struggling with long waitlists for care #moleg #mogov
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We knew how to code, and knew how to share and document it.
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Awful news but not a total surprise. BFN did great work (including the 2021 Pulitzer for international reporting) that wasn’t cheap or quick to produce. Check out their GitHub repo, still one of the best examples of journalists open sourcing their work: github.com/BuzzFeedNews/e
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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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The NIH’s blunders have massive ramifications for the more than 16 million Americans suffering from long Covid, in addition to those with other, similar chronic diseases. Patients are researching their own treatments while they wait for the NIH.
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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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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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