Bryce Covert
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
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.
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1 week 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.
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2 weeks 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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2 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Bryce Covert
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Acting Chair Andrea Lucas has directed agency officials to compile a list of cases in line with her own personal priorities for the agency, two sources familiar with the matter tell Talking Points Memo. Those priorities include “defending the biological and binary reality of sex and related rights” and “rooting out unlawful DEI-motivated race and sex discrimination,” according to a document reviewed by TPM.
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3 weeks ago |
the74million.org | Bryce Covert
Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter The Trump administration has failed to send out an estimated hundreds of millions in discretionary funding to state child care agencies that should have gone out weeks ago, five sources in the federal government and advocacy organizations confirmed.
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New York City led the country by establishing a right to counsel in evictions. Now tens of thousands of city tenants go through the process alone despite that right on paper. https://t.co/bY4TdWt9a8
After a group of tech titans pulled a ballot initiative in November to start building their utopian city in Solano County, CA--almost certainly because they knew they'd lose--they now appear to have found a way to avoid voters altogether https://t.co/bzZh7KnrOM
Poultry plants are horrific workplaces. Everything moves at lightning speed with numerous dangers few protections. I spoke to workers whose bodies have been wrecked by this work, which the Trump administration is aiming to speed up even more: https://t.co/aWBNoISdhe