If separating immigrant children from their parents at the border upsets you, Michael Bloomberg’s policies separated black and brown children from their parents all across New York.
Monica Potts
Monica Potts is a former senior writer at The American Prospect. She is working on a book about low-income women in her rural Arkansas hometown. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, New York, Vogue.com, The Daily Beast, The Trace, and Democracy.
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Putting Partisanship Aside, Arkansas Voters May Raise the Minimum Wage
And, reverting to partisan form, are also likely to vote for the Republican slate of candidates
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How the GOP Plans to Cut Affordable Housing (Again)
A 2008 program to help tens of thousands on housing waitlists is finally set to be funded, but House Republicans have other plans.
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Hillary Clinton’s New Image: Cool Grandma. Can She Maintain It?
Her attitude—unabashedly feminist, casually in charge—was captured most effectively toward the end of her stint as secretary of state. Can she keep it as a candidate?
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In an Obamacare Experiment, Maryland Aims to Make Its Poor More Healthy
In the rural area around Cumberland, the obesity rate is almost 29 percent, nutrition is poor and food insecurity is high. With a waiver from the federal government to experiment with preventive care, state officials hope to reverse those trends.
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Yes, Being a Woman Makes You Poorer
Why the failure of the Paycheck Fairness Act this week can’t be ignored.
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Soldiering on an Empty Stomach
The number of military families seeking food assistance has risen; even more need the help but are afraid to ask. Something’s wrong.
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Is There Hope for the Survivors of the Drug Wars?
Criminalized and discarded, falling at the bottom of every statistic, they want something better.
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Sit and Wait for the Sadness
The Ozarks—land of hillbillies and a few vast modern fortunes—are the setting for recent literary thrillers.
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Paul Ryan: A Poor Man’s Savior of the Poor
The House Budget chair released his cherry-picked report on the state of poverty-prevention programs on Monday. Here’s what he overlooked.