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Most kids labeled as having an “emotional disability” and shunted into public special education schools are Black or Latino, and low income — while wealthier families more often access a taxpayer-funded free private education.

Most kids labeled as having an “emotional disability” and shunted into public special education schools are Black or Latino, and low income — while wealthier families more often access a taxpayer-funded free private education.

DTE Energy has cut off power to customers more times in 2022 than in any nine-month period since the state began tracking shut-offs.

Sheltered workshops are supposed to be temporary. In Missouri, they’re long-term employment at subminimum wages.

Sheltered workshops are meant to employ disabled adults as they prepare to enter the regular workforce. In Missouri, these workers rarely graduate to higher-paying jobs.

Sheltered workshops are supposed to be temporary. In Missouri, they’re long-term employment at subminimum wages.

One weekday morning in July, Kerstie Bramlet was at her workstation inside the Warren County Sheltered Workshop near St. Louis, putting plastic labels on rabbit-meat dog chews one by one. Its legal to pay her a low rate because she works at what is known as a sheltered workshop.

“The Medicaid program provides a safety net for our most vulnerable populations that do not have access to traditional healthcare coverage,” U.S. Attorney Juan Antonio Gonzalez said. “The misuse of Medicaid funds will not be tolerated.”

Title pawns offer quick cash, but high interest rates and poor regulation make them a debt trap for many Georgians

Watchdog report echoes reporting published earlier this year that revealed a culture of cover-ups