Bryce Covert

Bryce Covert

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Independent journalist writing about the economy. Contributing writer at @thenation.com. Send tips to brycecovert@protonmail.com or on Signal: brycecovert.25 she/her

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Bryce Covert
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Are you facing unfair or unsafe conditions at work? Have you been denied a government benefit or run into arbitrary barriers? You can always send me a tip: brycecovert@protonmail.com

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Teacher Kolbe Ricks keeps a box of snacks in her classroom so kids aren't hungry. "The box, which she estimated had about $200 to $300 worth of snacks, was completely wiped out within the first nine weeks of school."

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Under Biden, the federal government required states to pay childcare providers based on enrollment, just like parents who pay out of pocket. Now Trump has walked that back and put providers in financial turmoil. www.the74million.org/zero2eight/w...

the74million.orgWhen a Child Is Absent, Should the Childcare Provider Still Get Paid?A Biden-era rule required states to pay providers based on enrollment, not attendance. It’s been rescinded. Here’s what that means for providers.

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Melody Schreiber
@melodyschreiber.com

She lived in the US for 14 years as a permanent resident, but she was recently detained by ICE. When she had a bad fall, she was too scared to seek healthcare because she knew she could be detained again. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

cbc.caCanadian woman dies in U.S. after fears of detainment prevented her from seeking medical care | CBC NewsLast month, Paige Adamson was stopped at a U.S.-Canada border crossing and interrogated for hours about whether she had unlawfully voted in a U.S. election. She died at home on Sunday after a fall, te...

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Katie Bergh
@katiebergh.bsky.social

About 2 million kids have lost SNAP since deep cuts were enacted last year. The ripple effects: Kids losing SNAP also lose automatic enrollment for free meals at school. And as more kids lose SNAP, their schools may be forced to drop Community Eligibility.

washingtonpost.comAs SNAP rolls shrink, free school lunches disappearEnrollment in the nutrition assistance program dropped following last year’s sweeping GOP tax bill. Fewer children and schools now qualify for free school meals.
Bryce Covert
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I still can't get over the fact that more than half of the people who used to get food stamps in Arizona have been kicked off

Katie Bergh@katiebergh.bsky.social

In the year after the Republican reconciliation law was enacted, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 20% in Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Nebraska, Nevada, and Oklahoma. Using more recent state data, add Indiana, Kansas, and Texas.

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Rebecca Nagle
@rebeccanagle.bsky.social

A new report found Elon Musk’s DOGE canceled $470 MILLION in grants and spending for Indian Country. The federal government’s obligation to tribes goes back to treaties, and many advocates are saying the cuts amount to treaty violations.

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Sophie Hurwitz
@hurwitz.bsky.social

“These are not people who failed to qualify—they are eligible Americans who will be stripped of coverage because they could not navigate a system designed to pile on paperwork.”

Mother Jones@motherjones.com

Private contractors are set to cash in as millions of Americans lose health care

motherjones.comPrivate contractors are set to cash in as millions of Americans lose health careImplementing Trump’s "big, beautiful" Medicaid cuts will be a windfall for firms like Deloitte.

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Chabeli Carrazana
@chabeli.bsky.social

After watching parents return to work while their babies were in the NICU, Pittsburgh nurses fought to secure the nation's first county-level paid parental leave policy. Nurse Jean Stone said she hopes it becomes an "early example of when things started to change." 19thnews.org/2026/10/paid...

19thnews.orgA historic win for paid parental leave, led by nursesAfter watching parents return to work while their babies were still in intensive care, Pittsburgh nurses fought to secure the nation's first countywide 12-week paid parental leave policy.

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jamelle
@jamellebouie.net

ironically, a program seemingly designed to just give money to the regime's friends and allies is textbook fraud

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox.com

Incentivizing Trump voters to call in their suspicions about about black and brown people? What's the worst that could happen?

Bryce Covert
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I am absolutely thrilled to have a story in this year's edition alongside a ton of fascinating others. Go get yourself a copy today!

Jaya Saxena@jayasaxena.com

It's pub day for the Best American Food and Travel Writing 2026! So many amazing selections in here, and also I read my own forward on the audiobook version which was pretty cool to do. Grab a copy! www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

harpercollins.comThe Best American Food and Travel Writing 2026A collection of the year’s best food and travel writing, selected by renowned chef and humanitarian José Andrés. “Good food and travel writing takes us some...
Bryce Covert
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Signing another editorial contract that explicitly forbids me from using AI to write the story. I wonder if this is going to end up being standard, boilerplate language everywhere?

Bryce Covert
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Why do the political scam slop texts always include a photo of the supposed sender? Do they think everyone else in my life texts me a photo of themselves when they text to say hi?

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Chabeli Carrazana
@chabeli.bsky.social

What would have to happen to drive a group of non unionized workers to strike? How bad would it have to get for the parents to stand in support of the teachers? & how did this all get so out of hand that now the school is disenrolling the kids of parents who spoke up? 19thnews.org/2026/10/dayc...

19thnews.orgDaycare strikes almost never happen. Here's what drove these workers over the edge.Staffing shortages, too many toddlers per room, two teacher deaths — inside the dysfunction at a daycare in Virginia that pushed teachers to the brink.
Bryce Covert
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This is a super interesting paper. Female academics aren't pushed out primarily because they can't swing being both a mother and an academic; they're pushed out because women are valued less than men. www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

eurekalert.orgDevaluation, not work-life balance, underlies the academic gender gapFeelings of devaluation can explain some of academia’s stubborn gender gap.
Katie Spoon@kspoon.bsky.social

We found that the most gendered experience wasn’t work-life balance, the focus of most retention efforts. It was feeling devalued, in formal evaluations, but particularly in everyday interactions. Unlike every other topic, the gender gap in devaluation was larger among more senior faculty.

Bryce Covert
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1985, 1985. Call up your best friend just to say hi. There were no cellphones in 1985. 1985, 1985. Just to see a movie you had to take a drive. There was no Netflix in 1985. 1985, 1985. If you were bored you had to go outside. There was no Xbox in 1985. -A song my 7-year-old just sang to me

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Katie Bergh
@katiebergh.bsky.social

Criminals have been exploiting outdated EBT card technology to steal SNAP benefits from unsuspecting low-income families. Since December 2024, the victims of this theft have had no recourse & federal action to prevent it has largely stalled — for a deeply infuriating reason:

ProPublica@propublica.org

NEW: Fraudsters stole $470 million last year from Americans who need help paying for food. Adopting the same microchip that credit cards have had for years would prevent most of the theft, but Congress won’t pay for it.

propublica.orgScammers Are Stealing Millions From Food Stamp Recipients. Congress Could Fix It — but Won’t.Fraudsters stole $470 million last year from Americans who need help paying for food. Adopting the same microchip that credit cards have had for years would prevent most of the theft, but Congress won...
Bryce Covert
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Lyft will pay $272 million to California drivers for misclassifying them as independent contractors from 2016-2020, the largest wage and hour settlement in state history. But Prop 22 means it faces no penalties for continuing to do so. www.fastcompany.com/91620939/lyf...

fastcompany.comLyft’s historic wage theft settlement fixes the past but ignores the futureThe $272 million settlement could compensate thousands of drivers for past grievances. But it does little to change the rules governing gig work today.

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Adam Serwer
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The Trump Civil Rights Division exists mostly to encourage racial discrimination rather than prevent it bsky.app/profile/carl...

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

HUD sent $WFC a letter "saying it would examine whether the bank violated fair lending laws by favoring Black or other minority homeowners, according to a copy viewed by The Wall Street Journal. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/finance/bank...

wsj.comExclusive | Wells Fargo Faces Regulator Probe Over Efforts to Boost Black HomeownershipTrump’s Housing and Urban Development is seeking to crack down on race-based lending, calling it a potential violation of the Fair Housing Act.
Bryce Covert
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What's extra enraging about these stories of workers getting killed or disabled by heat stroke is that it is so, so easy to prevent. Workers just need access to water, rest, and shade. Employers just don't want to do it.

Bryce Covert
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There is nothing at all abstract about forced, unwanted pregnancy inthesetimes.com/article/what...

inthesetimes.comWhat It's Like to Have an Abortion Denied by DobbsDobbs will throw many lives into disarray. Lationna Halbert’s is one of the first.
Marty Lederman@martylederman.bsky.social

Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."

cbsnews.comThe Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justiceJustice Samuel Alito discussed his opinion in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the leaked draft and its aftermath, same-sex marriage rights and why he's not retiring yet.