Utah Lawmaker’s Firm Squeezes Thousands From Renters Months After Evictions
Co-published with the Utah Investigative Journalism Project and The Salt Lake Tribune. The practice appears to violate a new law setting deadlines for such damage claims.
Housing Is a Right. During a Pandemic, It’s Also a Fight.
Co-published with The Nation. In California’s agricultural heartland, farmworkers are fighting back against expensive rents, substandard housing, and economic disenfranchisement.
How the United States Chose to Become a Country of Homelessness
Co-published with The Nation. For months, our leaders have known that the Covid-19 crisis could force millions of people from their homes. They decided to let it …
Incarceration Has Always Threatened Health. COVID-19 Just Worsened the Problem.
Co-published with the Philadelphia Inquirer. During the pandemic, jail populations — largely poor people who can’t afford bail — have been some of the hardest hit by the …
What A Living Wage Means To A Low-Income Family In Atlanta
Co-published with WABE. What does a living wage mean to a low-income family? Our contributor Jill Jordan Sieder brings us the story of one Atlanta family struggling through …
When My Father Called Me About His Unemployment
Co-published with Slate. I cheer the new benefits. I also know exactly who will continue to bear this burden.
Forsyth County Meets the New American Majority
Co-published with Slate. What happens in a Whitopia as a red Georgia turns blue?
Tribal Territories Have the Right to Protect Their People Against the Pandemic
Co-published with The Nation. South Dakota has resisted shutting down in the face of Covid-19. The Cheyenne River Reservation is taking matters into its own hands.
COVID-19 Response has Been Starkly Different for Indigenous Communities in Texas
Co-published with the Texas Observer. While coronavirus rates remain high, officials have taken unprecedented actions not found anywhere else in the state.
Pandemic Pain Unequally Felt As Financial Cliff Looms For The Unemployed
Co-published with WABE. With no government relief to count on, coronavirus on the rise, and a fragile economy, many jobless Georgians are bracing for a lean and …
Life Inside a Pre-Release Center: Like Prison, But More Work
Co-published with VICE News. Life in pre-release is like a grim resource-management video game where you have to juggle ironclad schedules and severe punishments for small …
Appalachia’s Hospital Closures Are a Slow-Motion Health Care Emergency
Co-published with The Nation. Unless there are drastic changes to how we apportion health care in this country, the future of rural care will be either …