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401(k) & 403(b) Participants - Plan Fees & Alternative Investments

Do you track your 401(k) fees? Help ProPublica investigate what’s really happening to your money. Hi r/Retirement401k, We’re reporters at the nonprofit investigative newsroom ProPublica. If you’ve never heard of our work before, we report stories in the public interest. Right now, we’re in the process of reporting on 401(k) retirement plans and we want to hear from you. Some people have their retirement in investment funds with relatively high fees and costly add-ons – and they may never know it. The Trump administration also wants employers to include less-regulated “alternative” investments like private equity and cryptocurrency in 401(k) plans. We want to learn more about the financial products companies are pushing. You can help us report by sending your plan’s annual disclosure: https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/share-401k-fees-retirement-investment The disclosure lists your 401(k) plan’s investment options, the historical performance of those investments and information on fees — all details that every company is required by law to give an employee, but aren't always made public. \\Note: We aren’t asking for anything that shows your account balances or personal information. And if you have a 403(b) plan and work for a private, tax-exempt organization, we’d also like to hear from you. The more people we hear from, the better informed our reporting will be. Thank you for the time. If you have any questions, please feel free to email [email redacted].

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SNAP & Medicaid Administrators - Work Requirements & EBT Fraud

If you administer SNAP or Medicaid benefits, we want to hear your thoughts about the new work requirements, efforts to combat EBT fraud and other priorities for the programs. Share your insight and expertise with ProPublica. https://t.co/dQQnYe2XbQ

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SNAP Recipients - EBT Theft & Fraud

New: If you think your SNAP benefits may have been stolen, tell ProPublica what happened. We want to hear your story. https://t.co/c4ax8uhvFt

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Corporate Whistleblowers - Private Equity Deal Scrutiny

I'm joining ProPublica's new business investigations team! Our editors, Jesse Eisinger and Jake Swearingen, have tasked us with pursuing the most important stories we can find about the companies, financiers, and dealmakers who need more scrutiny. Drop me a line on LinkedIn or Signal (@kendall.12) if you have suggestions for where we should be digging in. More details on my other fantastic colleagues in the official announcment: https://lnkd.in/gfz5syjW

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Families Using School Vouchers - Experience Navigating School Options

ProPublica is currently reporting on school voucher programs. We need to hear from families to understand their experiences — good or bad — and how they’re navigating school options. Here's how to reach out: https://t.co/F4cGgkNMeG https://t.co/1HuXet8gJy

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Local State & Federal Emergency Managers - FEMA Review Council Report

The FEMA Review Council is presenting their long-awaited report right now. If you are a local, state or federal emergency manager, former EM, EM researcher, or a part of the broader network of EM, we want to hear your thoughts and concerns. @propublica.org www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...

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Purdue & Mallinckrodt & Endo Claimants - Opioid Settlement Stories

Are you waiting for opioid settlement money from Purdue, Mallinckrodt or Endo? We’re investigative journalists who want to hear your story. (Big thanks to mod u/djspacebunny for approving our post!) Hi r/ChronicPain, We’re investigative reporters for ProPublica and The Philadelphia Inquirer. In our latest investigation, we found that while nearly 140,000 people filed claims against Purdue for the harm they said its painkillers caused, fewer than half of them will get any compensation. We heard from victims who told us they were caught off-guard by the changes to the settlement. “It was a punch in the gut,” one woman said. Now, as we continue to report on drugmakers Purdue, Mallinckrodt and Endo, we want to hear about people's experiences filing a claim for compensation for addiction or other harm as a result of the prescription-opioid crisis. If you have a story to share, you can get in touch with us here: https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/purdue-endo-mallinckrodt-opioid-settlement-callout We take your privacy seriously. We are gathering these stories for the purposes of our reporting and will contact you if we wish to publish any part of your story. Thank you so much for your time.

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Current & Former Federal OIG Employees - Political Interference

Do you work in or have recently left the office of an inspector general? We’re ProPublica journalists who, like you, want to hold the government accountable. Help us report — we take your confidentiality seriously. (Thank you to the mod team for letting us post our callout!) Dear current and former OIG employees, We’re ProPublica reporters Sharon Lerner and Raquel Rutledge. Over the past weeks, we’ve been talking to dozens of you about concerns that the federal government’s new watchdogs —political loyalists —may be unable to independently carry out their critical oversight duties. We recognize the longstanding reluctance of inspectors general and their staffs to speak with the media. But this is an extraordinary moment. And we believe we share a common purpose with you: to hold our government accountable by identifying any waste, fraud or abuse — and to be thorough, fair and accurate. If you work in or have recently left the office of a federal inspector general, we want to hear about your experience: Have important projects been halted? Have staff been asked to do work that wouldn’t have typically been done by an inspector general’s office in the past? What is working well, or better than it has previously? Are you facing obstacles that impact your ability to do your work? What getting in touch means: We take your confidentiality seriously. If you decide to reach out, we will take care to use encrypted, secure channels. If you’d like to remain anonymous, one thing you can do is request to speak on background, which means to have a conversation to help inform reporting, rather than to quote from. Both of us have extensive experience covering sensitive topics and government agencies. We are happy to answer questions you may have about ourselves and our project. Please reach out to us on Signal or email, and share this letter with anyone who should see it.Thanks for reading. Signed, Sharon Lerner Signal: sharLerner.76 Email: [email redacted] Raquel Rutledge Signal: 202-886-9630 Email: [email redacted]

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Current & Former Federal IG Staff - Office Experience

"If you work in or have recently left the office of a federal inspector general, we want to hear about your experience." www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...

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Emergency Managers Needed for Disaster Response Challenges Survey

Emergency managers: I’m a ProPublica reporter who wants to hear about the issues you’re facing. Help us prepare to report on the next disaster. Hi! My name is Cassandra Garibay and I’m an engagement reporter with ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative newsroom. Over the past few months, I’ve been talking to current and former emergency managers across the country about the growing challenges they’re facing amid more frequent disasters and uncertain federal funding. Our team has a wealth of experience reporting on different aspects of emergency management and is made up of journalists whose work led to changes to better protect people on the frontlines of disaster response, who brought fracking into the national conversation, who spent months talking to community members to detail what happened in a small, rural community when Hurricane Helene hit, and who uncovered that former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem had fast-tracked disaster aid for a project after one of her donors intervened. Now we’re asking for your help to fuel more of this type of in-depth coverage and trace the impact of more frequent disasters from community preparedness through long-term recovery. We want to know what challenges your communities are facing, how decisions made at the federal level have or might impact your work, and if there is anything you think we should know about ahead of a gray-sky day. Fill out the brief form below to tell us what we should be covering, or to stay in touch as changes unfold. You can also reach me via Signal at 707-234-5175. https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/emergency-managers-disaster-needs-survey

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