Kids on the Line
Leaked immigration court official’s directive could violate rules that protect families from deportation
Legal experts say placing hard limits on family immigration cases could be illegal.
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The Right to Boycott
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We look at where an Israel boycott clause in employment contracts comes from and weigh it against the First Amendment right to free speech.
The Cost of Choice
Know the score: How schools rate in the Louisiana Scholarship Program
Find data on grades, enrollment and how much state money has been paid to the state’s private schools.
Accountability
‘If you have an addiction, you’re screwed’ – How Facebook and social casinos target the vulnerable
Reveal and PBS NewsHour examine how Facebook is partnering with social casino games to monitor and analyze the behavior of vulnerable players.
Kids on the Line
N.C. shut down a group home last year. The US just gave it a contract to house migrant children
As the Office of Refugee Resettlement rapidly expands its shelter network, it’s adding providers with little experience and troubling track records.
Impact
Congressman calls for action to combat exploitation in senior residential care industry
The request marks the federal government’s first steps to tackle the systematic abuse of care homes’ mostly poor, immigrant workers.
Kept Out
Can algorithms be racist? Trump’s housing department says no
A new HUD rule would make it difficult for banks to be sued when their algorithms result in people of color being disproportionately denied housing.
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The Right to Boycott
We look at where an Israel boycott clause in employment contracts comes from and weigh it against the First Amendment right to free speech.
The (Un)Scientific Method
Farm wars
The herbicide dicamba is causing a civil war in farm country, honeybees are rustling in California’s almond groves and more.
Inequality
Year of return
We reflect on how the legacy of slavery has reverberated through the generations to the present.
The Cost of Choice
The cost of school choice
Dominique Martin was thrilled to get a state-funded voucher to send her daughter to private school. We go to Louisiana to investigate the cost of school choice.
Accountability
Bundyville revealed
What happened to rancher Cliven Bundy’s supporters since his original armed standoff with the government?
Accountability
So your child racked up unwanted credit card charges playing video games. Now what?
The more than 135 pages of emails, memos and other documents brought into focus a calculated, multiyear effort by the social network to dupe children out of their parents’ money.