Sinduja Rangarajan

San Francisco

Senior Investigative Data Reporter @business. Past: @MotherJones @reveal @aajasf board member. Email: srangarajan7 at bloomberg dot net. Views my own.

Articles

Asylum Seekers Crammed Into Former Jails Biden Vowed to Close

Oct 25, 2024 | bloomberg.com | Sinduja Rangarajan |Ariel Prado

Businessweek | The Big Take Businessweek | The Big TakeThousands of detainees have been jammed into jails Biden vowed to close. In 2017 more than 100 prison reform advocates filled a Baton Rouge conference room, ready to celebrate with Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards.
No son reclusos. Solicitantes de asilo copan cárceles que Biden prometió cerrar

Oct 25, 2024 | bloomberg.com | Sinduja Rangarajan

En 2017, más de cien defensores de reformas al sistema penitenciario llenaron una sala de conferencias de Baton Rouge, listos para celebrar con el gobernador de Luisiana, John Bel Edwards. "No estoy orgulloso de nuestro título como el estado con más encarcelados", dijo Edwards, “pero eso ahora será cosa del pasado”. Frente a él había una pila de leyes pendientes, cada una de ellas destinada a vaciar miles de celdas de cárceles y prisiones.
Justice Is Beside the Point in America’s Immigration Courts

Sep 3, 2024 | news.bloomberglaw.com | Sinduja Rangarajan

This is the first story in the series Courting Injustice, which reveals how US immigration courts are arbitrary and steered by politics, and deny many deserving asylum seekers due process. Lea esta nota en español. In May 2018, Yerandy Valdes Ruiz walked across the bridge spanning the Rio Grande near McAllen, Texas, and told a border patrol officer he was being persecuted by a government he actively opposed.
Tribunales inmigración EEUU en manos de política y le falla a solicitantes asilo

Sep 3, 2024 | bloomberg.com | Sinduja Rangarajan

Este es el primer artículo de la serie Courting Injustice, que revela cómo los tribunales de inmigración estadounidenses son arbitrarios y están dirigidos por la política, y niegan el debido proceso a muchos solicitantes de asilo que lo merecen. Read this story in English. En mayo de 2018, Yerandy Valdés Ruiz cruzó el puente que atraviesa el Río Grande cerca de McAllen, Texas, y le dijo a un agente de la patrulla fronteriza que era perseguido por un gobierno al que se oponía activamente.
US Immigration Court System Falls to Politics, Failing Asylum Seekers

Sep 3, 2024 | bloomberg.com | Sinduja Rangarajan

The system for deciding asylum cases is failing, and not only because it’s overwhelmed. Something drastic will have to be done to fix a process that’s flawed at its very core.
Billions of Dollars Hinge on Opaque Climate Disaster Models

Aug 9, 2024 | news.bloomberglaw.com | Eric Roston |Krishna Karra |Leslie Kaufman |Sinduja Rangarajan

For the full experience visit: The Risky Business of Predicting Where Climate Disaster Will HitHumans have tried to predict the weather for as long as there have been floods and droughts. But in recent years, climate science, advanced computing and satellite imagery have supercharged their ability to do so. Computer models can now gauge the likelihood of fire, flooding or other perils at the scale of a single building lot and looking decades into the future.
Is Your Home at Risk From Climate Change? It Depends on the Data Source

Aug 9, 2024 | bloomberg.com | Eric Roston |Krishna Karra |Leslie Kaufman |Sinduja Rangarajan

UNCOVERED Climate tech companies can tell you the odds that a flood or wildfire will ravage your home. But what if their odds are all different? By Eric Roston Krishna Karra Leslie Kaufman Sinduja Rangarajan August 9, 2024 Humans have tried to predict the weather for as long as there have been floods and droughts. But in recent years, climate science, advanced computing and satellite imagery have supercharged their ability to do so.
Investors Are Getting Rich Off a Trade That’s Sucking a Continent Dry

Dec 27, 2023 | bloomberg.com | Peter Waldman |Sinduja Rangarajan |Angus Whitley |Sybilla Gross |Elena Mejia |Raeedah Wahid

On the world’s driest inhabited continent, water is making a few big investors very rich. On the day the trucks took away Meghan Campbell’s cows, she wept. Campbell, 23 at the time, had helped build her family’s herd of 500 dairy cattle since grade school. She ordered her first cow embryos at age 14. She’d talked to her dad about becoming the third generation to run the 800-acre dairy in Australia’s middle Murray River district.
Nvidia staffers warned CEO of threat AI would pose to minorities

Dec 18, 2023 | thestar.com.my | Sinduja Rangarajan |Ian M. King

Masheika Allgood and Alexander Tsado left their 2020 meeting with Nvidia Corp chief executive officer Jensen Huang feeling frustrated. The pair, both former presidents of the company’s Black employees group, had spent a year working with colleagues from across the company on a presentation meant to warn Huang of the potential dangers that artificial intelligence technology posed, especially to minorities.
Nvidia Staffers Warned CEO of Threat AI Would Pose to Minorities

Dec 18, 2023 | finance.yahoo.com | Sinduja Rangarajan |Ian M. King

(Bloomberg) -- Masheika Allgood and Alexander Tsado left their 2020 meeting with Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang feeling frustrated.