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Investigations Directory

Start here if you want the site's core subjects: low wages, homes out of reach, political money, war spending, restaurant takeover, broken healthcare, food chemicals, ultra-processed food, insect decline, media ownership, manipulation, and blocked alternatives. Some pages already publish hard numbers. Others show the records and reporting behind deeper stories still being built.

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Live dataIn progressSource linksReviewed March 31, 2026
At A Glance

What Is Published Now

This quick summary shows what is already publishing live numbers and what is still being built into fuller investigations.

Summary 01

2

Low Wages and Housing Crisis publish the clearest benchmark sets, with current official figures and source links visible on the page.

Live benchmark pages
Summary 02

17

Restaurant Takeover, Corporate Capture, Green Money, Blocked Alternatives, Broken Healthcare, Pet Food Safety, Food Chemicals, Ultra-Processed Food, Insect Collapse, Political Money, Political Grift, War Money, Truth & Lies, Mind Control, Media Ownership, News Suppression, and Food & Scarcity all carry live signals, reporting plans, or both.

Investigations in progress
Summary 03

19

Taken together, the site now has a nineteen-page investigations section covering wages, housing, restaurants, healthcare, pet food, food chemicals, ultra-processed food, insect decline, media power, political money, environmental lock-in, and defense spending.

Total public investigations
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Current Investigations

Each card below opens a different reporting area, from low wages and housing to restaurant concentration, political money, media power, healthcare, environmental lock-in, and defense spending.

Labor / Pay
Live data

Low Wages

Tracks the gap between pay and survival: the $7.25 federal wage floor, median earnings, and the broader story of workers falling behind while money pools at the top.

Open Investigation
Labor / SNAP
Live data + charts

Corporate Welfare

Tracks how profitable employers can keep wages and hours low enough that SNAP and other public programs end up subsidizing the labor model and the checkout lane.

Open Investigation
Housing / Wealth
Live data

Housing Crisis

Tracks how ownership slipped away from ordinary workers: home prices, down-payment barriers, and the widening gap between wages and assets.

Open Investigation
Chains / Distribution
Live data + reporting

Restaurant Takeover

Follows how giant distributors and giant chains squeeze small restaurants through scale, expansion, and the infrastructure sitting between kitchens and customers.

Open Investigation
Resource / Lobbying
Reporting in progress

Corporate Capture

Follows supply chains, distributors, contracts, and gatekeepers that decide which materials, products, and independent businesses get a real chance to survive.

Open Investigation
Environment
Reporting in progress

Green Money

Follows subsidy flows, environmental enforcement, and recipient records to see who profits when green policy becomes a business pipeline.

Open Investigation
Water / Habitat
Live reporting

Environment

Follows permits, wetlands, levees, water systems, habitat, industrial siting, and downstream public-risk records so environmental stories have a real desk instead of living only in the feed.

Open Investigation
Materials / Standards
Live data + reporting

Blocked Alternatives

Follows hemp, timber, standards, procurement rules, and other material lock-in points to see why cleaner or cheaper alternatives stay marginal.

Open Investigation
Healthcare
Live data + reporting

Broken Healthcare

Follows pricing, ownership, billing, and industry influence inside a healthcare system that keeps getting richer while patients get squeezed harder.

Open Investigation
Pets / Food
Live data + reporting

Pet Food Safety

Follows pesticide-residue monitoring, contamination findings, ingredient-label opacity, and recall or warning-letter trails in the pet food business.

Open Investigation
Habitat / Pesticides
Live data + reporting

Insect Collapse

Follows insect decline through habitat loss, turf lawns, pesticide drift, herbicides, and farm simplification to show what happens when the food web gets hollowed out from below.

Open Investigation
Food / Additives
Live data + reporting

Food Chemicals

Follows additives, GRAS exceptions, pesticide residues, food-packaging chemicals, and the slow post-market actions that shape what ends up in human food.

Open Investigation
Diet / Chronic Disease
Live data + reporting

Ultra-Processed Food

Follows the strongest evidence on ultra-processed food, including the NIH feeding trial, chronic-disease links, and the larger food environment that trains appetite at scale.

Open Investigation
Political / Fiscal
Reporting in progress

Political Money

Follows campaign money, lobbying, procurement, and public spending to see who gets paid when politics turns into a revenue stream.

Open Investigation
Office / Disclosure
Reporting in progress

Political Grift

Follows salaries, disclosures, outside income, and trade-reporting rules to see how elected officials live inside a system built for personal upside.

Open Investigation
Defense / Contracts
Live data + reporting

War Money

Follows defense spending, contractor backlog, lobbying, and procurement records to see where public money turns into private military revenue.

Open Investigation
Claims / Oversight
Reporting in progress

Truth & Lies

Checks public claims against transcripts, votes, hearings, budgets, and oversight records instead of letting clip culture define reality.

Open Investigation
Media / Influence
Live data + reporting

Mind Control

Tracks how feeds, influencers, podcasts, loneliness, and AI systems shape attention, identity, and political behavior.

Open Investigation
Media / Ownership
Reporting in progress

Media Ownership

Follows concentrated ownership, mergers, platform control, and the small number of firms shaping what most Americans see and hear.

Open Investigation
Coverage / Archive
Methods + reporting

News Suppression

Looks at what gets saturated, what gets buried, and how agendas shape public attention before people think they reached their own conclusions.

Open Investigation
Scarcity / Access
Reporting in progress

Food & Scarcity

Tracks food prices, freight stress, bottlenecks, and the concentrated systems that turn basic goods into recurring shortages.

Open Investigation
Main Sources

Public Records Behind The Site

These are the public record systems doing most of the work behind the investigations pages right now.

Source 01

Macro Benchmarks

Treasury, Census, HUD, and BLS currently anchor the live economic baseline on the public site.

Source 02

Money And Influence

FEC, Senate lobbying filings, USAspending, and SEC EDGAR support corruption, procurement, and disclosure reporting.

Source 03

Sector Records

CMS, Open Payments, HHS, Pew, FDA, AAFCO, FTC, EPA ECHO, USDA, the Forest Service, and White House budget materials are now feeding healthcare, pet-food, media, materials, and defense reporting.

Source 04

Page Labels

Each investigation page tells readers whether it is publishing live numbers, document-backed reporting, or a mix of both.

Reader Guide

Every Investigation Should Be Easy To Read And Easy To Place

Readers should be able to tell, at a glance, which pages publish live benchmarks and which are still building deeper reporting from records. This directory is meant to make that difference obvious.