Archives for April, 2011
What we're reading this week - April 29, 2011
Friday, April 29th, 2011
Here's what Kat Aaron, What Went Wrong's project editor, was reading this week: Americans depend more on federal benefits than ever before, according to a story in USA Today. A record 18.3 percent of the nation's total personal income was a payment from the government for Social Security, Medicare, food ...
Fight over aid to local governments brews in Minnesota
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
A challenging financial environment has caused tension in states and cities over budgets. Sharon Rolenc of the Twin Cities Daily Planet reports on Minnesota's own struggle over competing views about allocation of resources in distributing state aid to local communities. LGA—-Local Government Aid—has been called government welfare, a dependency on ...
Barlett and Steele chat live about the project
Monday, April 18th, 2011
Donald Barlett and James Steele are answering questions live online on Monday, April 18 at 1 p.m. at a live chat hosted by The Philadelphia Inquirer. The Inquirer was the home for Barlett and Steele's original 1991 newspaper series, America: What Went Wrong. The paper and its website will run ...
A new partnership with Philadelphia Inquirer
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
The Investigative Reporting Workshop’s story on corporate taxes by Don Barlett and Jim Steele is also being published today in The Philadelphia Inquirer, where Don Barlett and Jim Steele worked for 27 years before joining Time and then Vanity Fair magazines. The Inquirer published the original America: What Went Wrong ...
