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States want to expand preschool, but pre-K teachers say they're underpaid, overworked, and want to quit

Republicans claim they aren't going to cut Medicaid. But they know work requirements are just a cut--otherwise they wouldn't count them as an offset for the cost of huge tax breaks for the wealthy.

RT @thebafflermag: The Bronx has an eviction rate double that of the other boroughs, but 60% of tenants go to housing court without represe….

With support from @econhardship, I spent a morning in Bronx housing court watching tenants face eviction alone despite the city's right to counsel law:

Medical credit cards trap patients into deferred interest schemes few understand, but they're a boon to healthcare providers who get paid upfront and don't have to deal with insurance

This is my scoop that she's asking RFK about: the administration is sitting on hundreds in millions of funding for childcare that's legally owed to states

Scoop: The EEOC's acting chair is focusing on the agency on cases related to her own personal priorities, including "unlawful DEI" and "the biological and binary reality of sex," against agency policy and outside of her authority

The Trump administration hasn't sent out hundreds of millions in funding to state child care programs

New York City led the country by establishing a right to counsel in evictions. Now tens of thousands of city tenants go through the process alone despite that right on paper.

After a group of tech titans pulled a ballot initiative in November to start building their utopian city in Solano County, CA--almost certainly because they knew they'd lose--they now appear to have found a way to avoid voters altogether

Poultry plants are horrific workplaces. Everything moves at lightning speed with numerous dangers few protections. I spoke to workers whose bodies have been wrecked by this work, which the Trump administration is aiming to speed up even more:

The Trump administration is delaying and even cutting funding for Head Start programs that Congress appropriated in March

We've gone over the childcare cliff, and providers are being forced to raise prices that squeeze parents or close up altogether

This is what it's like to be trans while working for a federal government that's hostile to your very being:

News: EEOC Acting Chair Andrea Lucas has hired Shannon Royce, a Christian conservative who opposes trans rights, abortion, and gay rights and has sued the agency in the past

McDonald's promised to fix sexual harassment after years of workers speaking up and a sex scandal that engulfed its CEO. My new investigation found that promise was empty.

Voters overwhelmingly backed minimum wage increases and paid sick leave in Missouri and Nebraska, but now lawmakers are working to roll back those measures

Homelessness for families with children rose 39% last year

Zohran Mamdani wants to put a city-run grocery store in every New York City borough. Could public grocery stores address high prices and low access?