Tracie McMillan
Contract Project Editor at Capital & Main
Author, THE WHITE BONUS. Editing @capitalandmain; tweets my own. Not gonna argue with you about who deserves what; we all deserve to have enough.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Tracie McMillan
On the first Monday morning in June, Jocelyn Walker waited for her car clock to tick 9 a.m., then scrolled her cellphone call history for a number she dials often. She had 30 minutes to spare before seeing her first client of the day at Revived Styles, the natural hair business she runs in a suburb of Detroit. "Usually I call early in the morning," Ms. Walker told me.
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2 months ago |
amsterdamnews.com | Tracie McMillan
The following is excerpted from “The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America”, published in paperback this week by Henry Holt & Co.If American life is a river, relief from poverty and strife sits atop one of its slippery banks, and the American Dream sits safely back from its edge. Few of us manage to plant our feet firmly enough in that soil to have no fear of it falling away; fewer still are born there in the first place.
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Jan 20, 2025 |
capitalandmain.com | Tracie McMillan
As Donald Trump returns to the White House this week, the people that Capital & Main has covered for the last 18 months in its national series on worker organizing could face a difficult transition. Pro-labor observers expect that members of the federal agency overseeing unions, the National Labor Relations Board, will be replaced with appointees hostile to unions.
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Dec 8, 2024 |
traciemcmillan.com | Tracie McMillan
The following excerpts are from Chapters 7 and 8 of The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America. I am sharing them in light of the December 3 murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthCare, one of the nation’s largest health insurers. An October 2024 Senate Majority Staff Report found that the company’s shift towards automated claim processing accompanied an increase denials of some care.
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Sep 30, 2024 |
amsterdamnews.com | Tracie McMillan
Tracie McMillan is author of “The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America.” She edits coverage of worker organizing for Capital & Main. This piece was originally published in Reckon. JD Vance, the Ohio senator and Republican candidate for vice president, does not talk much about being white. Yet an analysis of public records indicates that more than $20 million has flowed to the self-styled “hillbilly” from policies and practices that fuel white advantage.
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