An investigation by MuckRock and The Missouri Independent found that despite hundreds of millions in federal pandemic relief money pouring into the state, child care facilities are facing huge staffing shortages and parents are struggling with long waitlists for care.

MuckRock and The Missouri Independent analyzed the supply and demand of Missouri child care programs since 2019, drawing from public records and data provided by the advocacy group Child Care Aware.

Every time a MuckRock user files a request with a new agency, we create a dedicated profile page to start keeping track of their key details, including their average response time, how often they assess fees and more. Thanks to our community of requesters, you can now browse over 22,000 agency pages — and we wanted to make them even more useful.

A new investigation from STAT and MuckRock, based on interviews with nearly two dozen government officials, experts, patients, and advocates, and more than 100 pages of internal NIH correspondence, letters, and public documents, shows that the nearly $1.2 billion in taxpayer money for long Covid research has resulted in few tangible results.

Carla Minet, founder and executive director for Puerto Rico’s Centro de Periodismo Investigativo (CPI), and Carlos Ramos-Hernandez, a public interest attorney at CPI, recently joined us to share how they used their Gateway Grant and DocumentCloud’s advanced automation and analysis tools to scour tens of thousands of previously secret documents from the island’s secretive Fiscal Control Board (FCB).

This coming Saturday, April 15, 2023, MuckRock services — including MuckRock itself, DocumentCloud, and our MuckRock Accounts service — will be inaccessible from 1-3 p.m. Eastern while we upgrade our database system.

DocumentCloud has added AI credits and the ability to use these credits on five new GPT-3 Add-Ons. There are now also several Add-Ons that add the ability to bulk change the visibility of your documents, bulk reprocess documents, and clear failed uploads through new Add-Ons. The membership list for organizations are now prominently featured on DocumentCloud’s sidebar for easy viewing.

MuckRock and its partners have investigated neighborhood-level air pollution, unexplained pollution spikes, and smoky air on the Fourth of July using Microsoft’s Project Eclipse data. But after two years of offering a view of Chicago’s air pollution that residents had never before seen, the project has ended with little details on what comes next.