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• The EEOC's Identity Crisis (51 min.)
  May 31, 2025. Reveal host Al Letson and Mother Jones national politics reporter Abby Vesoulis walk through how the anti-DEI movement evolved from a niche legal fight to an all-out culture war—and what that means for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the marginalized people it has historically protected.
• #MeToo: Rape on the Night Shift
  Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, Jan 20, 2018 Our multiplatform Rape on the Night Shift investigation – a collaboration with KQED, the UC Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program, FRONTLINE and Univision – was released in 2015. Since then, it’s helped spur a wave of reforms, including a new law in California that mandates sexual harassment training for all janitorial companies. This week, we’re updating the investigation with new insights and interviews. First up, Reveal reporter Bernice Yeung and KQED’s Sasha Khokha examine the conditions that led to an epidemic of rape and assault. Female janitors often work alone at night, in buildings that are nearly empty. Some are in the U.S. illegally, which limits their ability to report abuse to law enforcement. And although such incidents are widespread – they occur in tiny mom-and-pop shops and large corporations – one company, ABM Industries Inc., stands out for its pattern of problems. ABM is among a rare group of 15 American corporations that have been sued at least three times by the federal government for failing to protect workers from sexual harassment. The company still is receiving sexual abuse complaints from women. Next, Khokha and Yeung discuss how the #MeToo moment has changed America’s perspective on sexual assault and what it means for low-wage workers. Although some of the janitors with whom our reporters spoke are happy the issue is getting more attention, they also are asking what took so long. “Nobody listened to me,” said janitor Georgina Hernandez. “These are women with money, women in Congress, and they get help. They get the attention. They are women who are worth something. But I am a woman who is worth something, too.” Finally, Reveal host Al Letson chats with Rebecca Corbett, an investigative editor at The New York Times who oversaw the paper’s bombshell exposé on film producer Harvey Weinstein. Corbett explains why her reporters succeeded where so many others had failed, why America was ready for #MeToo and what the movement’s next steps might look like.
• 10 Years or Life
  Reporters Eve Abrams and Laura Starecheski, and editor Catherine Winter; Reveal, the Center for Investigative Reporting, Oct. 6, 2018 An accused man faces an impossible choice in New Orleans. Plus, a new district attorney in Philadelphia sets out to undo the work of those who came before him.
• A welfare check
  Reveal, July 16, 2016 - updated Nov 26, 2016 Jul 16, 2016 Share Listen A welfare check i UPDATE, Nov. 26, 2016: With Republicans in full control of the federal government, there’s a good chance welfare reform will be an issue they may take on. In anticipation of that, it is worth taking another look at what’s worked and what hasn’t. An updated version of the original episode can be heard below. Twenty years ago, President Bill Clinton vowed to end welfare as we know it. And he did. One of the biggest changes to come out of the 1996 welfare reform law was that that the federal government handed over control of $16.5 billion to the states, in the form of block grants, to spend as they see fit. Today, only a quarter of welfare dollars actually goes toward basic assistance – housing, transportation or essential household items. On this hour of Reveal, we take a road trip with Marketplace’s new podcast “The Uncertain Hour” and find out the surprising ways different states use this money.
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• Cops on a crime spree (56 min)
  From Reveal, a co-production of The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX. Reported by Mary Rose Madden, in partnership with WYPR. June 2, 2018. Includes transcript.
  In 2018, eight former Baltimore police officers were convicted on federal racketeering charges stemming from an FBI investigation. They belonged to the Gun Trace Task Force, an elite force charged with getting guns off the city’s streets. Instead, the plainclothes cops roamed Baltimore neighborhoods at will, robbing people on the street, breaking into homes to steal money, drugs or guns and planting evidence on their victims.
• Kept Out - For people of color, banks are shutting the door to homeownership
  Aaron Glantz and Emmanuel Martinez, Reveal, from the Center for Investigative Reporting, February 15, 2018 Fifty years after the federal Fair Housing Act banned racial discrimination in lending, African Americans and Latinos continue to be routinely denied conventional mortgage loans at rates far higher than their white counterparts. This modern-day redlining persisted in 61 metro areas even when controlling for applicants’ income, loan amount and neighborhood, according to a mountain of Home Mortgage Disclosure Act records analyzed by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. The yearlong analysis, based on 31 million records, relied on techniques used by leading academics, the Federal Reserve and Department of Justice to identify lending disparities.
• Reveal - Development arrested (55 min.)
  From Reveal, the Center for Investigative Reporting. Co-produced with PRX. Nov. 16, 2019.
  In Mississippi, Jim Crow era laws result in a high rate of black kids charged as adults
  Written by Ko Bragg; reported by Ko Bragg and Melissa Lewis. Includes transcript and Ko Bragg’s article: Bound by Statute: In Mississippi, Jim Crow era laws result in a high rate of black kids charged as adults.
• Reveal - Mighty Ike: A monster storm in the making
  From the Center for Investigative Reporting, March 5, 2016 Texas is home to the Houston Ship Channel, one of the world’s busiest maritime waterways. Also in Houston, and along the channel, are oil refineries and chemical plants that make up the nation’s largest refining and petrochemical complex. It’s a major economic hub. But what would happen to the area if a big hurricane hit? In 2008, Hurricane Ike swept through Texas and resulted in billions of dollars in damages. But it could have been much worse. The storm turned at the last minute and didn’t hit Houston head on. So imagine if Ike happened again, but with higher winds, and this time, the storm headed straight toward Houston. According to scientists, this is more of a question of “when” than “if.”
• Reveal - ‘If you have an addiction, you’re screwed’ – How Facebook and social casinos target the vulnerable
  Reveal, from the Center for Investigative Reporting, August 4, 2019
  In this partnership with PBS NewsHour, Reveal examines how Facebook is partnering with social casino games to monitor and analyze the behavior of vulnerable players. The companies are using big data and advanced software to predict which people will spend massive amounts of money on the games and then targeting these people with aggressive marketing.
• School haze
  NPR, Reveal, Feb 18, 2017 CPI reporter Jamie Hopkins recounts how many schools operate near busy roads – and how her team was able to figure that out. Next, Reveal reporter Amy Walters takes us to El Marino elementary school in Los Angeles next to the busiest highway in America, but parents and teachers got together to install air filters at El Marino. Finally, Reveal producer Ike Sriskandarajah visits Chicago – where hospitalization rates for asthma are twice the national average.
• Silencing Science
  Reveal, The Center for Investigative Reporting; co-produced with PRX. July 13, 2019
  President Donald Trump says he doubts humans have much of a role in climate change. His administration has not only downplayed the science of climate change, it’s sought to silence scientists working for the federal government. In this hour, Reveal’s Elizabeth Shogren details the pressures one researcher faced as she worked on a project for the National Park Service.
• Sins of the Fathers (55 min)
  Reveal, from the Center For Investigative Reporting and PRX, December 15, 2018. In Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, the Catholic church had a problem with Jesuit priests sexually abusing children. The church’s first solution was to send the priests to remote Native villages, but there they continued to abuse. So the church tried something else: hiding them in plain sight. (Includes transcript.)
• The religious freedom loophole
  "... What happens when religious groups take advantage of these special freedoms to make money, skirt rules or hurt children? "This hour of Reveal explores the tricky territory of religious freedom and how different groups have exploited this loophole."
• Trial by Fire (54 min)
  Reveal, Feb 5, 2017 In 1988, six firefighters in Kansas City, Missouri, were killed in a blast at a highway construction site. Nine years later, five people were convicted of setting the fires that led to the deaths. And now, almost 30 years later, Reveal investigates problems in the case: There was no physical evidence linking the five to the crime, and their convictions were based on witness testimony – a lot of it conflicting.
• When companies hire temp workers by race, black applicants lose out
  When companies hire temp workers by race, black applicants lose out Will Evans / January 6, 2016 Audio and text.
• Who got rich off the student debt crisis
  By James B. Steele and Lance Williams / June 28, 2016 Reveal, Center for Investigative Reporting A generation ago, Congress privatized a student loan program intended to give more Americans access to higher education. In its place, lawmakers created another profit center for Wall Street and a system of college finance that has fed the nation’s cycle of inequality. Step by step, Congress has enacted one law after another to make student debt the worst kind of debt for Americans – and the best kind for banks and debt collectors.