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Bryce Covert

New York

Journalist at Freelance

Journalist writing about the economy. Contributing writer @thenation, member @FSP_NWU. @brycecovert.bsky.social Tips: [email protected] she/her

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  • 1 week ago | the74million.org | Bryce Covert

    During the 2023-24 school year, a higher share of children were enrolled in preschool than ever before, and states spent record amounts of money on these programs. But a recent survey of public pre-K teachers could spell potential problems for states that want to keep expanding preschool programs.

  • 2 weeks ago | thenation.com | Bryce Covert

    Comment / June 10, 2025 The GOP Is Trying to Destroy Your MedicaidRepublicans are trying to ram through some of the most harmful anti-welfare policies in living memory.

  • 4 weeks ago | the74million.org | Bryce Covert

    Join our zero2eight Substack community for more discussion about the latest news in early care and education. Sign up now. This roundup features a curated collection of stories on an important early care and education topic. The United States has one of the highest child poverty rates among all developed countries. One in six American children under the age of 5 live in poverty, a higher rate than for any other age group.

  • 1 month ago | prospect.org | Bryce Covert

    This article appears in the June 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Christopher Crim’s troubles started when his husband, who has cystic fibrosis and is in end-of-life hospice care, needed a tooth pulled. Crim took him to a dentist near their home in Tennessee, and while he was in the bathroom, the dentist pulled all of his husband’s teeth, not one, and left a bone sticking out of his husband’s gums.

  • 1 month ago | economichardship.org | Bryce Covert

    Housing, Inequality, Living Advantage: Landlords Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Baffler. Icy snow crusted the sidewalks outside the Bronx housing courthouse on a Thursday in late January, a bitterly cold day in a string of bitterly cold days. Inside, spread out over three floors, dozens of people in puffy coats, some cradling babies or hunched over canes, waited to find out whether they would be kicked out of their homes or what it would take to stay housed.

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Bryce Covert
Bryce Covert @brycecovert
2 Jun 25

RT @thebafflermag: The Bronx has an eviction rate double that of the other boroughs, but 60% of tenants go to housing court without represe…

Bryce Covert
Bryce Covert @brycecovert
28 May 25

With support from @econhardship, I spent a morning in Bronx housing court watching tenants face eviction alone despite the city's right to counsel law: https://t.co/bY4TdWt9a8

Bryce Covert
Bryce Covert @brycecovert
28 May 25

Medical credit cards trap patients into deferred interest schemes few understand, but they're a boon to healthcare providers who get paid upfront and don't have to deal with insurance https://t.co/qavtaWaKPB