Marian Wang
Marian Wang was a reporter for ProPublica, covering education and college debt.
Marian Wang was a reporter for ProPublica, covering education and college debt. She joined ProPublica in 2010, first blogging about a variety of accountability issues. Her later stories focused on how rising college costs and the complexity of the student loan system affect students and their families. Prior to coming to ProPublica, she worked at Mother Jones magazine in San Francisco and freelanced for a number of Chicago-based publications, including The Chicago Reporter, an investigative magazine focused on issues of race and poverty.
In Courts Across the Country, Railroad Company Mishandled Evidence in Collision and Injury Cases
In more than a dozen cases in the past decade, Burlington Northern Santa Fe has faced penalties such as fines and mistrials for breaking the rules of civil procedure, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported.
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Read: State Judge Testifies Foreclosure Problems Are 'Pervasive'
In testimony before a panel of lawmakers, a judge on New York's supreme court testified that he's seen recurring problems in foreclosure cases--among them, an inability to prove legal standing to foreclose.
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Oil Spill Panel Finds Obama's Regulatory Overhaul Insufficient, Industry ‘Complacent’
The presidential oil spill commission said the Obama administration's overhaul of nation's offshore drilling regulatory agency doesn't go far enough to prevent conflicts of interest.
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Drug Company Used Ghostwriters to Write Work Bylined by Academics, Documents Show
Newly released documents show how medical ghostwriters--paid for by a UK drug company--penned material published in medical journals and even a textbook.
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On the Mortgage Mess, Fannie and Freddie Point Blame Elsewhere
In testimony before lawmakers, Fannie and Freddie executives blamed servicers for foreclosure missteps, saying they expected them to comply with the law.
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Read: Documents Reveal One Bank’s Plan to Squeeze Customers for More Overdrafts
Follow along as we review of internal bank memos and e-mails that show Wells Fargo tried to maximize overdraft fees.
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Banks Seeking to Foreclose Face More Questions About Legal Standing
Several recent cases show that banks are facing more questions not only about their foreclosure documents--but about whether they can prove their legal standing to enforce a foreclosure.
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With Federal Benefits Set to Expire, Unemployed Workers Face Shrinking Safety Net
With unemployment at 9.6 percent and state unemployment funds in shambles, federal programs to extend the safety net for unemployed workers are set to expire unless lawmakers intervene.
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Ex-Admissions Officer at For-Profit College Testifies About School’s Tactics
In a recent court filing, a former admissions officer at a for-profit college in Utah testified that the school instructed recruiters to make prospective students “feel hopeless” and gave financial incentives for enrolling a certain number of students, according to the Deseret News.
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Primer: What Is a Wrongful Foreclosure?
Banks and foreclosure defense attorneys disagree on whether errors in the process have caused wrongful foreclosures—but their definitions of what constitutes a “wrongful foreclosure” differ.
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