Report for America Reaches 100,000 Story Milestone, Marking a New Era of Community-Driven Journalism - Report for America
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The state agency charged with ensuring children’s welfare has been beset by chronic failure and is often only in the news when something negative happens. For the story, corps member Esteban Candelaria aimed to tell one of the often underreported success stories of juveniles in the system breaking the cycle of poverty and crime. He The post More Juveniles Detained in New Mexico are Receiving GEDs appeared first on Report for America.| Report for America
Measles — a preventable disease the U.S. considered eliminated in 2000 — recently spread through a Mennonite community along with an outbreak of misinformation about vaccines. For this exclusive story in collaboration with the Associated Press, corps member Carlos Nogueras Ramos observed and interviewed the religious community and its leaders with compassion while also helping The post Spotlighting the West Texas community at the center of a measles outbreak appeared first on Report for A...| Report for America
In the Bay Area, where corps member Audrey Brown reports, highways, ports, and factories are often in close proximity to low-income communities of color. As a result, poor air quality and exposure to toxins disproportionately affect those communities, but due to the high influence of these industries, there is often a lack of accountability or The post Data shows Toxic Waste Cleanups Take Longer in Marginalized Communities appeared first on Report for America.| Report for America
In April, ICE agents stopped Juan Francisco Méndez and his wife, Marilú Domingo Ortiz, while they were driving, saying they were looking for someone named Antonio. The couple showed the agents their documentation to prove they had the wrong person. Marilú began recording the interaction, and then, the agents broke through the car window with The post How an ICE arrest changed a Massachusetts family appeared first on Report for America.| Report for America
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