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Reveal is the country’s first weekly investigative public radio show and podcast. Peabody Award-winning host Al Letson takes listeners across the country and the world, exposing wrongs and holding the powerful accountable. Whether it’s Amazon’s poor workplace safety record, inequity in the juvenile justice system or exploitation at drug ...
Reporting to police: A guide for victims of sexual abuse - Reveal
Aug 11, 2016 · In 2014 alone, more than 284,000 cases of rape and sexual assault occurred among people 12 and older, according to data from the National Crime Victimization Survey. The survey, conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, estimates that only a third of those instances were reported to police.
‘If the Police Don't Believe You, They Might Prosecute You ... - Reveal
Sep 25, 2023 · By some estimates, more than half of women and nearly a third of men in the U.S. will experience some form of sexual violence in their lifetimes.Most of those crimes go unreported. Of the cases that make it to law enforcement, the least likely outcome is an arrest of a perpetrator. The vast majority of complaints to law enforcement end with no trial, no conviction and, for victims, no closure ...
Modern-day redlining: Banks discriminate in lending - Reveal
Feb 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 ...
The Hate Report: Who are the Three Percenters? - Reveal
Mar 16, 2018 · One of the three suspects, Michael B. Hari, is a former sheriff’s deputy who submitted a proposal to build Trump’s border wall. JJ MacNab, an expert in the world of far-right extremism, uncovered that Hari ran a group called the White Rabbit Three Percent Illinois Patriot Freedom Fighters Militia. The group’s website called Illinois a ...
Beware the little green frog logo on your sustainable food
Nov 29, 2016 · by Bernice Yeung November 28, 2016. The Rainforest Alliance logo. That little green frog logo is everywhere: sprawled across chocolate bar wrappers, stuck to the side of tea canisters, perched on banana labels. The web-toed amphibian is the Rainforest Alliance Certified seal, a signal to consumers that the product is friendly to the planet and ...
How Corinthian Colleges, a for-profit behemoth, suddenly imploded
by Lance Williams September 20, 2016. Corinthian Colleges – a nationwide chain of for-profit schools – ballooned to 110,000 students and 105 campuses before it collapsed under the scrutiny of its high-interest loans, suspect recruiting practices and faked job placement statistics. Credit: VTT Studio/Shutterstock.com.
Why cleaning a hotel room makes you a target for sexual …
Jul 21, 2016 · According to its survey of nearly 500 Illinois hospitality industry workers, 58 percent of hotel employees and 77 percent of casino workers said they’d been sexually harassed. Forty-nine percent of housekeepers said that a guest had opened the door naked, exposed themselves or flashed them. The survey was spurred by a case from an Illinois ...
Atomic veterans: The legacy of watching nuclear blasts - Reveal
May 27, 2016 · In the aftermath of World War II and during the height of the Cold War – between 1946 and 1962 – the U.S. detonated more than 200 above-ground and undersea nuclear bombs. Over three months, Brooks would witness 27 of them. The atomic bomb blasts that Brooks witnessed took place almost 13 years after Hiroshima.