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Author Archives: Jamie Smith Hopkins

Jamie Smith Hopkins is an editor and senior reporter for the Center for Public Integrity. Her work includes investigations into the country's racial wealth gap, its fossil fuel export boom and its failure to stop a decades-long string of deaths from a widely available consumer product. She was the host of the second season of The Heist podcast in 2022. Before joining Public Integrity in 2014, Hopkins spent 15 years as a reporter for The Baltimore Sun. Honors for her stories include awards from the Society of Environmental Journalists, the Education Writers Association and the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing.

jhopkins@publicintegrity.org
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Posted inUnequal Risk

Three families vowed to stop a killer chemical. Here’s how they did it.

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins May 16, 2023May 16, 2023

A bathtub. A floor. A bike. The items Kevin Hartley, Drew Wynne and Joshua Atkins had been working on at the time of their deaths less than 10 months apart varied, but what cut their lives short was the same: a chemical in paint strippers and other products sold in stores nationwide. This story also […]

Paint strippers are displayed on a shelf in a hardware store.
Posted inUnequal Risk

The EPA wants to broaden a ban on a deadly chemical on store shelves

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins April 26, 2023April 26, 2023
ReShonda Young, wearing a yellow-orange suit and blue pants, sits between two levels of stairs. She is wearing glasses and smiling.
Posted inThe Heist

A new tool to find and stop discrimination in small-business lending

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins March 30, 2023March 30, 2023
A hand stacks coins on a table.
Posted inThe Heist

How can we close our racial wealth gap? 

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins March 22, 2022March 28, 2022
ReShonda Young looks at the restrictive covenant placed on homes in her neighborhood.
Posted inThe Heist

The racist history that helps explain our present wealth gap

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins March 15, 2022December 6, 2022
Students raise their hands during a discussion of poetry at the 1619 Freedom School.
Posted inThe Heist

Inside the effort to make this city a better place for its Black residents

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins March 8, 2022March 10, 2022
Woman turning an open sign on glass front door of coffee shop.
Posted inThe Heist

Small business lending looks unequal. Getting the data has been a battle.

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins March 1, 2022March 10, 2022
ReShonda Young stands at the double doors outside a church property in Waterloo, Iowa, that she's hoping to purchase.
Posted inThe Heist

Fighting the wealth vortex

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins February 22, 2022March 4, 2022
A sky-high view of a block of row homes. You can also see cars parked on the street.
Posted inHousing

Home lending remains unequal

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins January 18, 2022January 18, 2022
Vendors sell vegetables at a farmer's market in New York City.
Posted inCoronavirus and Inequality

Six lessons from the Paycheck Protection Program

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins December 1, 2021January 28, 2022
Posted inCoronavirus and Inequality

Kansas City businesses haunted by redlining legacy amid the pandemic

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins April 25, 2021January 28, 2022
Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) written on the mask and money.
Posted inCoronavirus and Inequality

What to know about the Paycheck Protection Program before your chance to get it runs out

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins April 25, 2021January 28, 2022
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Posted inCoronavirus and Inequality

How we analyzed PPP loans in Kansas City

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins April 25, 2021January 28, 2022
The smokestack of the Wheelabrator Incinerator is seen in Baltimore. Environmental justice is at a turning point.
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Q&A with the ‘father’ of environmental justice at a turning-point moment

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins February 12, 2021January 28, 2022
Posted inWatchdog newsletter

Climate change contributed to more than 70 natural disasters since 2015

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins January 22, 2021January 28, 2022
Posted inCOVID Divide

PPP loans were supposed to prioritize low-income areas during the pandemic. They didn’t.

Avatar photoTaylor Johnston by Jamie Smith Hopkins, Taylor Johnston and Pratheek Rebala December 11, 2020January 28, 2022
Posted inCOVID Divide

Bigger firms got their PPP loans early. Smaller ones in urgent need had to wait.

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins December 2, 2020January 28, 2022
Posted inElections

Michigan set to investigate potential attempt to ‘suppress’ Flint voters

Avatar photo by Amy Diaz and Jamie Smith Hopkins November 3, 2020January 28, 2022
Posted inNewsletters

In state after state, barriers to voting could affect election’s outcome

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins October 23, 2020January 28, 2022
Posted inUS Polling Places

Louisiana expands who can vote by mail this year, but other barriers remain

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins October 16, 2020January 28, 2022
Posted inUS Polling Places

In Mississippi, vote-by-mail rules make it hard to actually vote by mail

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins October 15, 2020January 28, 2022
Posted inUS Polling Places

In West Virginia, one barrier to voting removed, other stumbling blocks still in place

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins October 12, 2020January 28, 2022
Posted inUS Polling Places

In Kentucky, eliminating voting-access restrictions — temporarily

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins October 8, 2020January 28, 2022
Posted inUS Polling Places

In Tennessee, trying to help voters could get you charged with a crime

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins October 6, 2020January 28, 2022
Posted inUS Polling Places

In Pennsylvania, lawsuits leave election rules in doubt

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins October 2, 2020January 28, 2022
Posted inUS Polling Places

In Maryland, a switch over mail-in ballots worries advocates

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins October 2, 2020January 28, 2022
Posted inUS Polling Places

In Florida, voting rights restored, then snatched back

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins October 1, 2020January 28, 2022
Posted inUS Polling Places

In Iowa, making voting simpler with one hand, trickier with the other

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins September 30, 2020January 28, 2022
Posted inUS Polling Places

In Texas, polling place closures, absentee ballot rules make it harder to vote

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins September 29, 2020January 28, 2022
Posted inHidden Epidemics

How to heal emotional wounds after disaster

Avatar photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins August 25, 2020April 17, 2023

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