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.
Watchdog Finds Treasury's Reliance on Contractors Shielded Bailout Work from Scrutiny
A report by the government panel overseeing the bailout noted “significant transparency concerns” given the program’s heavy reliance on outside companies.
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More on the Foreclosure Scandal and the Mortgage Machine
The recent furor over foreclosure documentation brings fresh scrutiny to a complicated process, and to a little-known company tasked with keeping track of more than 60 million American home mortgages.
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Feds Investigate Allegations of Corruption and Misspending by California National Guard
Federal authorities have launched an investigation into possible corruption and $100 million in payments by the California National Guard alleged to have been improper, according to a Sacramento Bee investigation.
by Marian Wang,
Frontline and ProPublica Detail BP’s Corporate Culture in ‘The Spill’
See the promo for The Spill a documentary from ProPublica and Frontline
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Oil Spill Commission Hits Feds on Flow Rate, Dispersant, How Much Oil Is Left
The presidential commission investigating BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster found that a number of public failures undermined public confidence in the federal government.
by Marian Wang,
Q&A: Putting the Foreclosure Paperwork Scandal in Perspective
Robo-signing’s just small component of a larger mess made by servicers, according to consumer advocates and attorneys for homeowners. One expert explains how the process should’ve looked.
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