Ashley Lopez

6 days ago | wkar.org | Ashley Lopez

Mark Johnson, a Republican state senator in Arkansas, was attending a festival in his district last year when he came across people gathering signatures for a proposed ballot measure that would protect abortion rights in the state. "They said this was about women's health," he recalled. "And I said, 'Oh, really?' … They didn't make clear what it was.

1 week ago | wunc.org | Ashley Lopez

Mark Johnson, a Republican state senator in Arkansas, was attending a festival in his district last year when he came across people gathering signatures for a proposed ballot measure that would protect abortion rights in the state. "They said this was about women's health," he recalled. "And I said, 'Oh, really?' … They didn't make clear what it was.

1 week ago | whqr.org | Ashley Lopez

Mark Johnson, a Republican state senator in Arkansas, was attending a festival in his district last year when he came across people gathering signatures for a proposed ballot measure that would protect abortion rights in the state. "They said this was about women's health," he recalled. "And I said, 'Oh, really?' … They didn't make clear what it was.

2 weeks ago | mprnews.org | Ashley Lopez

Jessica LaPointe has worked at a Social Security field office in Madison, Wis., for the past 16 years. And she says right now, the work is harder than ever.

3 weeks ago | npr.org | Ashley Lopez |Danielle Kurtzleben |Elissa Nadworny |Domenico Montanaro

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