The federal minimum wage has not risen since 2009.
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As 19 States Raise Their Minimum Wages, the Federal Rate Remains Stuck at $7.25 Read Post »
Have you ever reached out to a customer-service helpline and fallen into a vortex of bad phone-tree options, all AI-generated, none of which have anything to do with your problem? There’s no capable human to help—even after you beg for a “representative!” across the automated line. That’s how Jennifer M., a lifelong resident of Astoria, […]
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NYC’s New Socialist Mayor Has a Radical Proposal: Have Government Do Its Job Read Post »
The poll found that 8 in 10 Americans view the wealth gap as a problem that is either “very big” or “somewhat big.”
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Poll: Voters Say Billionaires Pay Too Little in Taxes, Back Action on Inequality Read Post »
Zohran Mamdani and President Donald Trump had a surprisingly chummy meeting in the Oval Office last week, especially after Trump had described Mamdani during the New York City mayoral campaign as a “100 percent Communist lunatic,” a “total nut job,” and a “Jew hater.” A reporter asked the mayor-elect, often depicted in the press as […]
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New York’s Next Mayor Wants Affordable Housing. Just Don’t Ask Where He’ll Put It. Read Post »
Pastor Oliver Carter is in a strange predicament. For the last few years, he’s run a food bank serving the needy through No Limits Outreach Ministries, his church in a Maryland suburb just outside of Washington, DC. Now, his family is among those struggling to make ends meet. His wife, Pamelia, works for the US […]
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The Shutdown Is Pushing Federal Workers to Food Banks—Just as SNAP Is Set to Expire Read Post »
To say that Justin Portela never imagined himself as a highly paid business consultant at McKinsey & Company would be an understatement. He didn’t have a privileged upbringing, to put it mildly, and in 2018, when he first walked onto the Stanford University campus, Portela, like most incoming freshmen, was unaware such careers even existed. […]
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How America’s Elite Colleges Breed High-Status Careers—and Misery Read Post »
The Covid-19 pandemic’s stimulus checks and tax credits helped mainstream the idea that government could help unwealthy people through hard times by simply giving them cash—without conditions like work requirements or stringent income limits. Since then, the push for guaranteed income for the poorest Americans, for whom wage stagnation, inequality, and the disappearance of blue-collar […]
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The Cruel Catch-22 of Cash Aid Read Post »
On July 24, President Donald Trump issued an executive order for a nationwide push to involuntarily commit unhoused people to institutions—claiming that roundups would “restore public order,” and demanding the reversal of legal precedents and consent decrees that “impede” the policy, a draconian move that disability rights groups argue violates civil liberties. The resultant crackdown […]
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Ugly Laws: The Blueprint For Trump’s Anti-Homeless Crusade Read Post »
This story is published in partnership with the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University. In Minnesota, two tenants, the parents of a young autistic son, were told that they would be evicted. The reason? One neighbor had repeatedly complained about noise stemming from the child’s behavior, though it was nothing constant nor pervasive, according to […]
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Eviction Fears, Disability Discrimination, and Trump’s War on Fair Housing Read Post »
Amid the rancor and rhetoric of the fight over the “big, beautiful bill,” we heard many a story about Americans likely to suffer as a result of it—families who might lose access to elder care and food stamps and homes and health insurance and other important things. Largely missing were insiders’ views of the kinds […]
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How a Rich Dad’s Obsession With the Estate Tax Nearly Tore His Family Apart Read Post »
With an estimated net worth of $76 million, Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.) is one of the top 15 wealthiest members of Congress. On Thursday, Jacobs, the granddaughter of a successful early tech entrepreneur, plans to introduce legislation that would—if enacted—work against her own self-interest. The measure, which she discussed first with Mother Jones, is called […]
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This Wealthy Member of Congress Just Proposed Increasing Her Own Taxes Read Post »
The CBO has estimated at least 15 million people would lose health care coverage due to the bill’s cuts to Medicaid.
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Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Redistributes Wealth From the Poor to the Rich Read Post »
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