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Bryce Covert

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Journalist writing about the economy. Contributing writer at The Nation, member of the Freelance Solidarity Project. she/her

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this entire crusade against diversity in hiring and admissions is based on the supposition that all white men are necessarily more qualified than any nonwhite person or woman who might be considered for the job. like, this lawsuit more or less states that outright.

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Mississippi has done essentially nothing to ensure welfare money actually goes to poor people. Instead the governor is doing this.

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I feel compelled to remind everyone for no particular reason that people love female politicians until they actually run for a big office

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NYC "made a pledge to work toward the goal of providing a [preschool] seat for every three year old who wants one, but didn't provide the funding that would actually make that a reality next year. Meanwhile, the NYPD's $11 billion annual budget remained untouched." hellgatenyc.com/budget-victo...

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all of this for donald fucking trump of all people

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The majority opinion and dissent in Grants Pass refer ad nauseam to how complex and multifaceted the causes of homelessness are. But if you accept the overwhelming evidence that housing supply shortages are the #1 driver, then punishing people for not sleeping inside looks especially absurd.

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Just a cascade of horrendous news, my god.

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If anyone was curious, 22 seconds on childcare, almost a full minute on golf.

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"oh who knows what Trump will do on abortion" we do! we know! he was a notably anti-abortion president!

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like, why is anyone treating this like a serious proposal? the trump department of labor wanted to make it easier for employers to steal tips for christssake! he has an actual record!

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Compare the splashy $100 million spend to the $20 million abortion funds spent from July 2021 to June 2022 to make sure real people get the abortions they seek, and they usually don't cover the full cost that a caller faces nor help every caller in need.

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"Currently, though 14 percent of the city’s land is parks or green spaces, only around 0.6 percent of the city’s budget goes to the Parks Department. For context, the city dedicated 1.3 percent of its budget to the department in the 1970s during a fiscal crisis, "

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I followed the financial aftermath for Lationna and her family for a year. Her fiancé Kendall started working so much she hardly saw him. They didn't get any extra government support. Her life dreams began to drift away. inthesetimes.com/article/dobb...

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Two years ago the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade. Weeks later, Lationna Halbert tried to get an abortion in Mississippi and then realized she couldn't. She didn't have the money to travel out of state. She gave birth to her baby in January 2023. inthesetimes.com/article/what...

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Depressing new paper finds that the closing of the gender wage gap since the mid 1990s is due only to younger men being unable to move up and get higher pay, not to women making gains www.nber.org/papers/w32612

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A bit of breaking news: A federal judge just blocked the abortion-related protections in the new Pregnant Workers Fairness Act in Mississippi and Louisiana, which will directly impact 1.74 million women of reproductive age www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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Service sector workers in Atlanta, Charleston, and Durham will rally today to demand relief from excessive heat at work

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Great piece on capitalism and democracy and how the former, foolishly, keeps wanting to turn on the latter

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I would like to be pulled in fewer directions. If a direction could stop pulling on me that would be great.

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A year after Vermont invested significant, sustained funding in childcare, more programs are opening than closing

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genuinely pathetic that hochul can be bought for less than a year of tuition at a middling private school

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Why can't New York come up with any good politicians, why are we so cursed

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It's so fun, our politics are just a delight, from the state down to the city level

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apparently we’re not serious about making cities more livable

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A clear takeaway is that points-based, "no-fault" attendance policies that penalize absences from work are running head first into the PWFA (and already flouted a bunch of other laws, too).

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The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act has been law for a year and yet employers are still flouting it. I got access to some of the first complaints brought by workers exercising their new rights: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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RESULT: In yesterday's Dem primaries in New Mexico, progressives ousted 3 of the incumbent Dem lawmakers who had voted against a bill to mandate paid family and medical leave. The bill had failed by a single vote.

(One of items I was watching: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...)

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New paper finds significant economic benefits of giving people access to high-speed broadband internet days after the FCC shuttered a program that helped poor people get internet access because Republicans refused to fund it www.nber.org/papers/w32517

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!!!!!! (although states will have to opt in and there are some technical considerations for including state tax programs)

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Plane parts are falling off midair. Trains are derailing. About 100 people die every single day in car crashes. Has Pete Buttigieg done enough, been aggressive enough, in his role as DOT secretary? My profile: nymag.com/intelligence...

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Alice Miranda Ollstein's avatar Alice Miranda Ollstein @alicemiranda.bsky.social
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Trump has vowed not to "ban" birth control.

But as president, he enacted several policies that made it harder for the working class & poor to access it.

And his allies want to reimpose those policies and go further if he wins in November.

www.politico.com/news/2024/05...

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I also think there's a phenomenon where many people don't think someone who's dealing with homelessness deserves a full, normal-sized house

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I joined Rock Fight podcast to talk about the REI union campaign and the company, which holds itself out as a progressive place, reacting with a typical, aggressive anti-union campaign www.rockfight.co/post/rei-s-u...

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Are you facing unfair or unsafe conditions at work? Have you tried to access a government benefit and been wrongfully denied or run into arbitrary barriers? My DMs are now open for tips! You can also always reach out to brycecovert@protonmail.com

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Appreciate the effort to communicate policy to voters but… this is New York

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Every time private equity buys up a retail company, loads it with debt, and spits it out, there's some story spun about why its demise was due to something else. It's all just a distraction.

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