Alec MacGillis

2 days ago | propublica.org | Lomi Kriel |Alec MacGillis |Mica Rosenberg |Perla Trevizo

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4 days ago | propublica.org | Alec MacGillis |Mica Rosenberg |Perla Trevizo |Melissa Sanchez

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. There’s periodic debate over the 120,000 foreigners annually awarded temporary H-1B visas, but almost no attention to the process by which many receive green cards. Foreign workers are eligible for permanent residency only when no U.S. citizens can do the job — but companies confirm that after foreigners have been employed as temps.

1 month ago | undark.org | Alec MacGillis

More children ages 1 to 4 die of drowning than any other cause of death. Nearly a quarter of adults received mental health treatment in 2023, an increase of 3.4 million from the prior year. The number of migrants from Mexico and northern Central American countries stopped by the U.S. Border Patrol was surpassed in 2022 by the number of migrants from other nations. We know these things because the federal government collects, organizes, and shares the data behind them.

1 month ago | homelandsecuritynewswire.com | Alec MacGillis

TRGETING SCIENCETrump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and MorePublished 23 April 2025By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades. More children ages 1 to 4 die of drowning than any other cause of death.

1 month ago | propublica.org | Sharon Lerner |Robert Faturechi |Mark Olalde |Alec MacGillis

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Environmentalists have long faced harassment, imprisonment and other forms of retribution in some parts of the world. The U.S. has largely been an exception, a place where people and organizations can freely and safely pursue efforts to protect human health and nature — sometimes working hand in hand with the government.