Michael Grabell ProPublica
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    Meatpacking Companies Dismissed Years of Warnings But Now Say Nobody Could Have Prepared for COVID-19      
  
    A ProPublica investigation has found that for more than a dozen years, critical businesses like meatpackers have been warned that a pandemic was coming. With eerie prescience, infectious disease experts and emergency planners had modeled scenarios in which a highly contagious virus would cause rampant absenteeism at processing plants, leading to food shortages and potential closures.  
  
  
    
    
    Immigrant Youth Shelters: ‘If You’re A Predator, It’s A Gold Mine’      
  
    ProPublica obtained police reports and call logs from more than two-thirds of the shelters housing immigrant children. Here’s what they show.