Hi Reader,

So far this year, over 40,000 individuals have made a donation to help pay for the critical journalism we are publishing every day. The kind of investigative work we do is expensive and time consuming. But our hope is that the injustices we expose through our work can be corrected.

Here are a few ways our members’ donation dollars have made real-world change lately:

• A Multimillion-Dollar Settlement for a Young Woman Once Lost in the Shadow Foster System
  Days after ProPublica featured Molly Cordell in a story about how a North Carolina county illegally tore her from her family and made her homeless, she received a $4 million settlement.

• Head of New Mexico Child Support Agency Asks State to Stop Intercepting Payments to Poor Families
  Following a ProPublica investigation, the New Mexico Child Support Enforcement Division is calling on the state Legislature to stop funding the agency with millions of dollars confiscated from single mothers who received welfare.

• At Last, Florida Families Hit Hard by Their Children’s Birth Injuries Are Promised More Help
  The chairman of Florida’s NICA board gave parents of children born with brain injuries the message some of them have waited decades to hear: “You have been heard.”

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