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Among the many employees who may lose their jobs because of American Airlines' plans to restructure are those in maintenance, including 1,200 mechanics in Fort Worth. American was the last legacy carrier that did the bulk of its maintenance in-house. And as we found in our report last year, that shift to outsourcing maintenance has led to safety concerns.

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We publish online and in print, often teaming up with other news organizations. We post quarterly updates to our BankTracker project, in which you can view the financial health of every bank and credit union in the country, with msnbc.com, and we co-publish stories in our What Went Wrong project with The Philadelphia Inquirer and New America Media. Learn more on our partners page.

America What Went Wrong

Donald Barlett and James Steele are revisiting America: What Went Wrong, their landmark 1991 newspaper series, in a new project with the Investigative Reporting Workshop. Over the next year, the project team will examine how four decades of public policy has shaped America's ongoing economic crisis.