Earlier today, President Trump, who loves to brag about his personal impact on our amazing economy, tweeted that America’s gross domestic product’s growth rate is higher than the unemployment rate for the first time in a century. This, it turns out, is not true.
Bank of America hit me with my first overdraft fee a few weeks after I deposited my first check. It was a smoothie from Jamba Juice that did me in.
On Woodward Avenue in Highland Park, Michigan, a historical marker stands in front of a derelict industrial building. It reads, “Here at his Highland Park Plant, Henry Ford in 1913 began the mass production of automobiles on a moving assembly line...Mass production soon moved from here to all phases of American…
Everyone suffering from economic hardship deserves a hand. But it seems some get less sympathy than others.
The storied automotive industry is inextricably tied to the American Dream—and, as Donald Trump and the media constantly remind us, full of older white workers losing their footing in a changing country. Jerry Villagrana, an automotive engineer based in Detroit who is about to be stationed in Mexico, smashes that…
Years ago, Lasharia Holman was at church with her daughter, who was in grade school at the time. The pastor referenced the biblical story of Adam and Eve.
MEXICO CITY—Mi Valedor might be mistaken for any other glossy magazine, with its eye-grabbing covers and catchy headlines. Inside, you’ll find photographs, drawings, short stories, articles, and poetry that describe the realities of Mexico City. But it isn’t Vice. Nor is it the notoriously hip local magazine Chilango. …
Seven-hundred workers walked out of the Momentive chemical plant in upstate New York one week before Donald Trump was elected president.
A dairy industry lobbyist warned at a conference in Washington last week that if immigration raids hit milk farms, the price of a gallon of milk could soar to $8.
Because abortions are tax deductible.
Just in time for Easter, House Republicans are trying to resurrect their terrible health care bill. And what was revealed when the stone was rolled away from the tomb of failed legislation? An end to protecting people with preexisting conditions. (Metaphor fin.)
Lilly Ledbetter said she found out she was making less than the men she worked with at the Goodyear Rubber & Tire Company after someone dropped her an anonymous note. A friend of mine who for years worked at a progressive nonprofit—one you’ve definitely heard of and probably have warm feelings about!—made the…
Did you know that Lyft is woke? Because Lyft is woke. At least, that's according to John Zimmer, president of Lyft, who is using the word "woke" roughly 500 times a minute these days.
The fear among immigrant families that accessing social services could trigger unwanted attention to a family member's legal status didn't start with the Trump administration. But the new president's policies and rhetoric could be making the problem much worse, according to social scientists and experts working in the…
Just over one year after North Carolina's Republican-controlled legislature passed HB2, the notorious anti-LGBTQ "bathroom bill," we now have a sense of just how serious the economic fallout from the law could be for the state.
Decenas de venezolanos salieron a las calles esta semana para protestar por la escasez de pan. Las manifestaciones estallaron días después de que el gobierno venezolano expropió dos panaderías e impuso una serie de medidas drásticas para aliviar la falta de el alimento básico.
Welcome to Where It Hurts, a weeklong series that tells the stories of people in the United States who have gone without health insurance when they needed it most. You can read more from the series here.
The Republican health care bill—which dismantles the current Medicaid system while giving a massive tax cut to the super wealthy—may not have the votes necessary to pass the House. This would be an embarrassing outcome for Paul Ryan and the White House, so members of the Trump administration are working to drum up…
Welcome to Where It Hurts, a weeklong series that tells the stories of people in the United States who have gone without health insurance when they needed it most. You can read more from the series here.
