Trump’s Plan to Deny Benefits: Pretend People Aren’t Poor Trump’s Plan to Deny Benefits: Pretend People Aren’t Poor
By redefining poverty, millions fewer people would be able to take advantage of lifesaving programs.
May 31, 2019 / Bryce Covert
Donald Trump’s Tax Maneuvers Are Typical for His Class Donald Trump’s Tax Maneuvers Are Typical for His Class
If there’s a tax-evasion problem, it festers at the top of our income scale. Yet the IRS too often expends its precious resources going after the poor.
May 16, 2019 / Bryce Covert
Washington State Has Created the Nation’s First Social-Insurance Program for Long-Term Care Washington State Has Created the Nation’s First Social-Insurance Program for Long-Term Care
When Americans age or need help with the basic tasks of living, they often have no one to turn to but their family members. A groundbreaking program in Washington will change that ...
May 13, 2019 / Bryce Covert
Hedge-Fund Ownership Cost Sears Workers Their Jobs. Now They’re Fighting Back. Hedge-Fund Ownership Cost Sears Workers Their Jobs. Now They’re Fighting Back.
Laid-off retail workers are demanding severance, labor protections—and an end to the Wall Street playbook of owning a company while hollowing it out.
Apr 23, 2019 / Feature / Bryce Covert
In Defense of the Much-Maligned IRS In Defense of the Much-Maligned IRS
The agency helps to keep the wealthy accountable.
Apr 8, 2019 / Bryce Covert
A Federal Judge Strikes Down Arkansas’s Medicaid Work Requirement A Federal Judge Strikes Down Arkansas’s Medicaid Work Requirement
Now the 18,000 Arkansans who lost health-care coverage are eligible to get it back.
Mar 28, 2019 / Bryce Covert
The Oakland Teachers’ Strike Revealed California’s Education Crisis The Oakland Teachers’ Strike Revealed California’s Education Crisis
The struggle for fair funding goes way beyond the district. So now the teachers are taking their fight to Sacramento.
Mar 18, 2019 / Bryce Covert
How Does Losing Medicaid Help You Get a Job? How Does Losing Medicaid Help You Get a Job?
Arkansas is the first state in the nation to impose a work requirement on people receiving Medicaid. The results have been disastrous.
Mar 7, 2019 / Feature / Bryce Covert
Let’s Get Paid Family Leave Right Let’s Get Paid Family Leave Right
Even the paid-leave programs in the US that exist fall short of what’s needed.
Feb 8, 2019 / Bryce Covert
The New Federal Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Would Remedy Decades of Injustice The New Federal Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Would Remedy Decades of Injustice
America’s 2 million domestic workers have minimal protections on the job. The bill announced today would fundamentally change their industry.
Nov 29, 2018 / Bryce Covert