George Joseph

George Joseph is a reporter focusing on education and labor issues in New York City.

US Prisons Are Building Databases of Incarcerated People’s Voice Prints

The technology allows authorities to cross-reference the voices of individuals speaking to prisoners.

February 5, 2019

ICE officials have invited tech companies to develop algorithms that will track visa holders' social media activity.

November 27, 2017

Self-serving deals, like Icahn's, are not an outlier in the scandal-plagued charter school industry.

June 18, 2016

"Philanthrocapitalists" can't resolve the problems created by capitalism.

December 28, 2015

An investigation reveals how a group of hedge funders are about to get exactly what they paid for.

March 24, 2015

An internal memo reveals how TFA's obsessive PR game covers up its lack of results in order to justify greater expansion.

November 2, 2014

Dallas business interests stacked the school board. Now, a rule change could open the door for wholesale school privatization.

August 22, 2014