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Help Us Liberate Government Records During Sunshine Week

Ellen Miller | Posted 03.17.2010 | Politics

Read More: Data Mine, Sunlight Foundation, Center for Public Integrity, Open Government, Sunshine Week, Crowdsourcing, Politics News

As part of Sunshine Week, The Center for Public Integrity and the Sunlight Foundation are looking for help with The Data Mine, a new online series identifying inaccessible or difficult to use information.

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Women's Bodies

W. Hunter Roberts | Posted 03.01.2010 | Living

Read More: Women's Rights, Women's Body Issues, Rape, Center for Public Integrity, Abortion Rights, Living News

Women's bodies are the alpha and the omega of women's rights and women's dignity, the sine qua non and the front line of everything we have won over the past fifty years.

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Mortgage Modification Program: Subprime Lenders Entrusted With Billions To Fix Mortgage Crisis They Created

Mother Jones | Andy Kroll | Posted 02.09.2010 | Business

Read More: Treasury Department, Subprime Mortgages, Center for Public Integrity, Home Affordable Modification Program, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Mortgage Crisis, Home Affordable Modification, Subprime Loan Crisis, Housing Crisis, Business News

The Treasury Department has allocated $75 billion to entice lenders to let beleaguered borrowers stay in their homes. And the companies getting most o...

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'Shadow Elite': Outsourcing Government, Losing Democracy

Charles Lewis | Posted 03.18.2010 | Books

Read More: Robert Rubin, Janine Wedel, Center for Public Integrity, Huffington Post Book Club, Shadow Elite, Books, Arianna's Book Club, Taxpayer Money, Press-Scrutiny, Iraq, Haliburton, Dick Cheney, Outsourcing, Democracy, Arianna's Reading, Books News

Public and private are now substantially blurred, as the "transnational" political elites and the financial elites have become literally the same people. It is a condition which leaves the people feeling unrepresented.

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Ginnie Mae Using Taxpayer Funds To Fuel Risky Lending

washingtonpost.com | Brian Grow and Zachary A. Goldfarb | Posted 03.18.2010 | Business

Read More: Mortgages, Lend America, Freddie Mac, Hud, Subprime Lending, Ginnie Mae, Risky Lending, Fannie Mae, Center for Public Integrity, Federal Housing Authority, Government National Mortgage Association, Housing and Urban Development, Business News

Lend America is hardly the only lender with a troubled record that Ginnie Mae has endorsed. The agency has provided taxpayer backing to at least 36 ot...

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The US Chamber of Commerce Is Killing the Copenhagen Climate Treaty

James Hoggan | Posted 03.18.2010 | Green

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has already done everything it can to kill the chances of a legally binding agreement emerging from the Copenhagen climate change summit.

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Bomb Appalachia (and Face the Music)

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 03.18.2010 | Green

Read More: Clearcutting, Coal, Center for Public Integrity, West Virginia, Campaign, Coal Industry, Climate, Grassroots, Coal River Mountain, Climate Change, Virginia, Coal Lobby, Mountaintop Removal, Unions, Environmentalism, JP Morgan Chase, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Wto, Mother Jones, Labor, Clean Energy, Congress, Green, Global Warming, Government, Mountains, Epa, Harlan County, Mines, Bush Administration, Blair Mountain, Tennessee, Climate Action Partnership, President Obama, Washington, Obama, Coal Czar, Bush, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Naacp, Appalachia, Workers, Climate Justice, Office of Surface Mining, Civil Disobedience, Kentucky, Henry Waxman, Forests, Department of the Interior, Dirty Coal, Green Jobs, Wall Street, Astroturfing, Coal Mining, Duke Energy, Green News, Mining, Water, Clean Coal, Osr, Appalachian Mountains, Activism, Protest, Massey Energy, Green News

Theirs is a coast-to-coast campaign to save Appalachia's mountains and streams -- and Appalachians' homes, jobs, and culture -- from the devastating coal mining practice known as mountaintop removal.

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Many States Still Fail To Disclose Finances For Lawmakers

The Center For Public Integrity | Caitlin Ginley | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Center for Public Integrity, State Financial Disclosure, Politics News

Two southern states -- Louisiana and Mississippi -- made the biggest strides in the Center for Public Integrity's latest financial disclosure rankings...

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How To Fix American Journalism

Sara Catania | Posted 04.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Journalists, Newspapers, Non-Profits, Nonprofits, Mainstream-Media, New Media, Columbia-University-Journalism, Media, Media News, Journalism, Propublica, Center for Public Integrity, Reporters Committee on Freedom of the Press, Fund-for-Independence-in-Journalism, Media News

If American journalism is to save itself, it must look to non-profits and universities for funding and support.

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Broken Government: Top Ten Failures of the Bush Administration

Craig Newmark | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Center for Public Integrity, George W. Bush, CPI Bush Failure List, George Bush Failures, Bush Failures, Bush Failings, Top Ten Bush Failures, Politics News

The folks at the Center for Public Integrity have documented, in one place, the failures of the current administration, and enabled the public to vote on the worst.

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