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The Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act was supposed to be a strong dose of medicine for the ills of heirs’ property — jointly owned land with multiple heirs not documented in wills or deedbooks, ...

A type of law first created after the end of slavery to prohibit Black men from voting prevented more than 4.6 million Americans from participating in the 2022 midterm elections. Forty-eight states ...

Reading Time: 7 minutes Fast-rising prices for gas, food and most everything else is hitting low-income households hardest. But the Federal Reserve’s effort to rein in inflation with higher interest ...

Undercounting and underfunding homeless students The bill would also require a school district’s homeless liaison to inform parents and guardians about student rights and eligibility for support ...

Reading Time: 3 minutes While restoration of the federal Voting Rights Act languishes in a split Congress, an already deep divide in Americans’ access to voting has widened over the past year. In part ...

This demographic mismatch comes alongside an increasingly successful effort to push high courts to the right, the subject of a recent Public Integrity investigation. Nationally, state supreme courts ...

Reading Time: 4 minutes The voter turnout in 2020 was a stunning 67%, according to one source. Another had it at 94%. A third fixed 2020 voter turnout at 63%. All three are correct — because they do ...

Reading Time: 4 minutes The U.S. Postal Service paid its top executives more in bonuses and perks last year than at any other point in the past decade, adding up to $370,622 in extra income for ...

As community groups press the city to force closure of old wells, they often are countered by labor groups and the industry, which repeatedly have challenged Los Angeles’ authority to go further than ...

Reading Time: 8 minutes This is a news analysis from the Center for Public Integrity. “You will not replace us!” The words chanted in 2017 by tiki torch-wielding white supremacists in Charlottesville, ...

Sixteen-year-old Horlandina Lopez-Perez left her aunt’s home in the middle of the night on Oct. 1, 2022, with her four-month-old son and a few baby clothes. Alexander Perez-Méndez, 17, thanked his ...