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Ike Swetlitz

Ike Swetlitz has traveled the world to hold policymakers, businesses, and scientists accountable. At Searchlight, he is focusing on criminal justice. He most recently reported for STAT, the national health and medical science publication, in both Boston and Washington, D.C., where he focused on drug pricing, artificial intelligence, and genetic engineering. He graduated from Yale with a degree in physics and is based in Albuquerque.

Posted inCoronavirus, Featured, Your Right To Know

Pandemic death benefits going unused

Avatar photo by Ike Swetlitz February 17, 2022January 10, 2023

A federal program covers funeral costs for COVID-19 victims, but few New Mexicans are applying
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Posted inEviction, Eviction Epidemic, Featured, Housing

Helped out

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Ike Swetlitz and Luciana Perez Uribe Guinassi December 22, 2021January 10, 2023

New Mexico landlords tried to evict nearly 200 households whose rental assistance applications were pending

Posted inFeatured, Health

Stay or go?

Avatar photo by Ike Swetlitz December 10, 2021July 10, 2022

As the pandemic remains unpredictable, travel nurses are trading long-term stability for much higher pay while staff nurses wonder: Why aren’t we worth more?

Posted inEviction, Eviction Epidemic, Featured, Housing

Eviction Epidemic

Avatar photoAvatar photoAvatar photo by Ike Swetlitz, Luciana Perez Uribe Guinassi and Dillon Bergin November 3, 2021July 28, 2022

Searchlight analyzed 10 years of court records to find out which landlords evicted tenants. Here are the results.

Posted inEviction, Eviction Epidemic, Featured, Housing

Sectioned off

Avatar photo by Ike Swetlitz October 27, 2021July 28, 2022

With rent prices skyrocketing, more and more Albuquerque landlords have been refusing Section 8 tenants.

Posted inEviction, Eviction Epidemic, Featured, Housing , Your Right To Know

Illegal notice

Avatar photoAvatar photoAvatar photo by Dillon Bergin, Ike Swetlitz and Luciana Perez Uribe Guinassi August 12, 2021July 28, 2022

In Albuquerque, the eviction moratorium did little to stop landlords from trying to force hundreds of people from their homes.

Posted inFeatured

A lucrative vein

Avatar photo by Ike Swetlitz June 22, 2021February 15, 2023

Patients, doctors and former employees claim Modern Vascular, the national arterial disease treatment chain, pushes unnecessary treatments and patients suffer.

A leading image showing local teen Kyle Conway dons gloves as he gets to work during the night shift in the kitchen at The Skillet.
Posted inCoronavirus, Featured, Hitting Home, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Part 3

Viva Las Vegas

Avatar photo by Ike Swetlitz May 12, 2021July 10, 2022

COVID-19 has kept local youths from leaving home. They’re taking the opportunity to make their town better.

Posted inFeatured, Health, Politics

Busy signal

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Ike Swetlitz and Ed Williams March 11, 2021July 10, 2022

New Mexico’s unemployment office is struggling to answer millions of calls for help.

Posted inChild & Family Welfare

Missing Income

Avatar photo by Ike Swetlitz January 28, 2021February 16, 2023

New Mexico bungled payday for hundreds of Medicaid caregivers.

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