Ashley Clarke

3 weeks ago | businessandamerica.com | Asia Fields |Ashley Clarke |Jodi S. Cohen |Jennifer Richards

Since President Donald Trump took office, his administration laid off nearly half of the Department of Education division that handles civil rights investigations and shifted its focus. The administration halted work on thousands of pending discrimination cases while ordering investigations aligned with its priorities. Some people have spoken out about their cases being in limbo or about not receiving updates. We know there are thousands of other people who are affected.

1 month ago | propublica.org | Asia Fields |Ashley Clarke |Jodi S. Cohen |Jennifer Smith Richards

Since President Donald Trump took office, his administration laid off nearly half of the Department of Education division that handles civil rights investigations and shifted its focus. The administration halted work on thousands of pending discrimination cases while ordering investigations aligned with its priorities. Some people have spoken out about their cases being in limbo or about not receiving updates. We know there are thousands of other people who are affected.

2 months ago | propublica.org | Stephen Engelberg |Patricia Callahan |Annie Waldman |Ashley Clarke

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. One thing I’ve learned over more than three decades of work as an investigative editor and reporter: There’s plenty of waste, fraud and abuse in government agencies. The problem is finding it.

2 months ago | propublica.org | Patricia Callahan |Annie Waldman |Ashley Clarke |Asia Fields

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered staff this week not to release their experts’ assessment that found the risk of catching measles is high in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lagging, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica.

2 months ago | propublica.org | Annie Waldman |Ashley Clarke |Asia Fields

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. We’re a team of reporters at ProPublica, a nonprofit news organization that holds powerful institutions accountable. We’re trying to learn more about how researchers and academics are being affected by the Trump administration terminating grants at the National Institutes of Health.