Emily Featherston m534k
Investigative Producer 4yd3n
Massachusetts 5f1j62
Emily ed the InvestigateTV team as an investigative producer in 2021. Before that, Emily was an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist at WECT News in Wilmington, North Carolina, where she focused on local government, election istration, healthcare and business stories. She came to television from the print world, having worked as an award-winning community journalist in Birmingham, Alabama. Emily is a graduate of Samford University with both a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a Master of Business istration. 4r4f12
Officials Agree: Use Settlement Funds to Curb Youth Addiction. But the ‘How’ Gets Hairy. 3n330
Parents, educators, and elected officials agree that investing in school-based prevention efforts could help curb the rising rate of youth drug overdoses. The well-known D.A.R.E. program is one likely choice, but its effectiveness is in question.
Permission to Practice: Doctors, patients say insurance prior-authorizations put profits over people q41q
Insurance companies say these reviews lower costs and protect patients, but what requires advance permission varies plan to plan, and critics argue the policies get between a patient and their doctor.
Secret Subsidies: Program meant to help farmers in trade war overspent, lacked transparency and compliance checks 5w3h71
Experts say $23 billion USDA program set a precedent for spending without Congressional oversight and had a concerning mix of political influence and limited compliance monitoring.
Growing Concern: Thousands of farms across U.S. damaged by ‘dicamba drift’ that devastates crops t3a3d
A popular herbicide ingredient some farmers say is vital to business has devastated other farms because of the chemical's ability to drift under certain conditions. Enforcing the rules is in the hands of states, but there is a growing concern over whether federal action needs to be taken.
Democratic lawmakers push U.S. Transportation Secretary for faster changes to crash test dummy standards 3v4v53
The bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act requires research into the gender gap in vehicle crash testing, but lawmakers want Secretary Pete Buttigieg to take action now to close the Collision Division.
Uncollected: IRS fails to collect billions of dollars in tax debt each year, including from some of the wealthiest Americans 383o2r
After 10 years, the IRS can no longer collect most tax debt, and the amount rolling off the books each year is growing. That includes debt from high-income taxpayers, who historically are responsible for much of the tax gap.
