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1 day ago | 19thnews.org | Nadra Nittle

Published For the first time in five years, student loan borrowers whose payments are long overdue could face stiff consequences, and that puts a disproportionate number of women at further financial risk. The Department of Education announced Monday that, starting on May 5, its Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) will start collecting student debt in default. Delinquent borrowers could have their wages garnished as early as the summer.

2 days ago | 19thnews.org | Nadra Nittle |Orion Rummler

Published In one children’s book, a family dog gets lost at a Pride parade. In another on intersectional feminism, a young girl talks about using a wheelchair, while her friend wears a hijab in ballet class. A child who uses multiple pronouns, like she/her and they/them, talks about their gender expression in a different story. These books, among others written and illustrated for children, are at the center of an upcoming Supreme Court case.

6 days ago | 19thnews.org | Nadra Nittle

Published “A direct assault on the Texas public education system.”That’s how social justice groups like the Texas Freedom Network are describing the passage of a bill that would create a $1 billion school voucher program in the state. The Texas House passed Senate Bill 2 early Thursday, with support from Gov. Greg Abbott, who has championed school vouchers.

6 days ago | 19thnews.org | Barbara Rodriguez

Published In mid-March, the parents of a 6-year-old girl in Texas who died of measles complications — the — decided to speak out about what happened to their daughter. But it was not an interview with a news outlet. The parents had agreed to an exclusive on-camera interview with staff from the Children’s Health Defense (CHD), a nonprofit that promotes anti-vaccine sentiment and policies. Their daughter, Kayley, had been unvaccinated,a point the parents defended in the interview.

1 week ago | 19thnews.org | Orion Rummler

Published WASHINGTON, D.C. — It took Peter Staley two weeks to build 200 full-sized coffins. The longtime AIDS activist, with a group of volunteers,fashioned them out of black styrofoam and strapped them together with tape and velcro. On Thursday morning, the volunteers stacked coffins 10 layers deep outside the State Department headquarters to protest funding cuts to the global program known as PEPFAR, or the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.