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Rachel Cohen

Washington, D.C., United States

Senior Policy Reporter at Vox

Journalist @voxdotcom covering social policy // [email protected]

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Articles

  • Inside the conservative movement to remake American day care

    1 week ago | vox.com | Rachel Cohen

    In March 2024, Kelli and Austin Emry welcomed their son Logan, a little brother for their toddler Mila and the final piece of the family they had always wanted. Born with a full head of black hair, Logan was a healthy, happy baby who thrived in his first weeks of life. When Kelli returned to her job as a physical therapist assistant, she arranged for her son to attend an in-home day care — the same place she sent Mila.

  • Inside one state’s fight to save child care

    1 week ago | vox.com | Rachel Cohen

    Rachel Cohen is a policy correspondent for Vox covering social policy. She focuses on housing, schools, homelessness, child care, and abortion rights, and has been reporting on these issues for more than a decade. Welcome to Field Notes, a reporter’s log that gives readers an inside look into some of our most exciting reporting trips. This first appeared in the member-exclusive newsletter the Vox Explainer.

  • Red states are bringing the “success sequence” to public schools

    1 week ago | vox.com | Rachel Cohen

    Public schools in America are becoming testing grounds for a tenuous theory: that poverty can be avoided by making three choices in the right order. Tennessee lawmakers passed a bill this month requiring schools to teach students this so-called success sequence: that if you graduate from high school, get a full-time job, and wait until marriage to have children, you’ll likely be “successful” in avoiding poverty.

  • Would affordable housing boost America’s birth rates? | Vox

    3 weeks ago | vox.com | Rachel Cohen

    The connection between housing and fertility rates has a missing piece.

  • The invisible homeless crisis that official statistics miss

    1 month ago | vox.com | Rachel Cohen

    “The only thing worse than being homeless in America is not being considered homeless in America,” says Brian Goldstone, a journalist and ethnographer. America’s homelessness crisis extends far beyond what we see on the streets, and Goldstone wants us to pay attention to those who are hidden from public view.

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11 Apr 25

RT @Tanvim: New: the DOJ has terminated funding for legal programs that provide know-your-rights trainings and legal education + informatio…

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11 Apr 25

question headlines are out of control lately https://t.co/s8tXJLlqtC

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Rachel Cohen @rmc031
11 Apr 25

forcing seniors to join this platform for updates on their retirement benefits is really horrid

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