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  1. Kansas Republicans Are Finally Embracing Obamacare — Just as Trump Is Trying to Kill It
    3 Mar 2017 … While Republicans in DC are pushing for massive cuts to Medicaid, John Eplee and other Republicans in one of the country's most conservative states are fighting to expand the program. Eplee is a family doctor in Atchison, Kansas — a Continue reading
  2. The GOP Tax Plan Tells Us Everything About Who Matters In American Democracy President Donald Trump shows samples of the proposed new tax form as he meets with House Republican leaders and Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee at the White House in Washington, DC, on Nov. 2, 2017. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)
    11 Nov 2017 … The United States is the richest country in the history of the world. Last year, the genius and muscle of the American people generated more than $18.6 trillion in wealth. This year, our brains and brawn will combine to create Continue reading
  3. Morning Reads: Lost World Found in China and Putin’s Watching
    10 Oct 2013 … A round-up of some of the stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ. Continue reading
  4. The Terrible News Economists Are Trying to Hide About American Jobs
    6 Jun 2014 … Creating 217,000 new jobs is not a sign of economic health. Measuring the job market by quantity — with no regard for quality — devalues workers themselves. Continue reading
  5. How Class-Conscious Women Garment Workers Shaped the Movement for Women’s Suffrage
    8 Aug 2020 … Rose Schneiderman, Clara Lemlich, and Leonora O’Reilly are not household names like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, but these working-class suffragists were indispensable to winning women’s right to vote in New York state in 1917. Continue reading
  6. The Answer to Homelessness? Reliable Employment. Catharine Fletcher suns herself in front of one of over a hundred brilliant pink tents newly set-up as a shelter for homeless people Monday, Sept. 22, 2008, in Seattle. Homeless advocates in Seattle set up a new camp early Monday that they're calling Nickelsville after Mayor Greg Nickels to demonstrate the need for more homeless shelters in the city. Fletcher is no longer homeless, but was helping out at the encampment. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
    2 Feb 2015 … Providing housing is critical, but the ultimate solution to ending homelessness is preventing it in the first place. Continue reading
  7. Meet Randall Woodfin, the Mayoral Challenger Bringing the Political Revolution to Birmingham Democratic mayoral candidate Randall Woodfin listens to Birmingham resident Mike Hamilton. (Photo by Katherine Webb-Hehn)
    8 Aug 2017 … Mike Hamilton opens his door in a sleeveless Harley Davidson shirt. He’s got a shaggy goatee and a big grin. “Randall Woodfin!” the 63-year-old web developer says before any introductions. Continue reading
  8. No Safe Place: How Cities Are Making it Illegal to Be Homeless A homeless woman rests under a shade tree as children play at Lions park in Costa Mesa, Calif. October 2012. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
    8 Aug 2014 … Laws criminalizing sitting, sleeping, lying down and camping leave homeless people with nowhere to go when the shelter system fails them. Continue reading
  9. The Great Eviction: The Landscape of Wall Street’s Creative Destruction
    8 Aug 2013 … The foreclosure crisis hit African Americans particularly hard with disastrous consequences for many communities, writes Laura Gottesdiener. Continue reading
  10. Lessons for K-12 From Pre-K Classrooms In this photo taken May 7, 2012, students in a kindergarten classroom at North Valley Academy in Gooding, Idaho wear red, white and blue shirts as part of their school uniform. The K-12th grade public charter school is the first in Idaho to advertise itself as a patriotic choice for parents, with an emphasis on individual freedoms and free-market capitalism. (AP Photo/Jessie L. Bonner)
    5 May 2014 … A new report says high school students perform worse the older they get. A pre-K administrator believes that bringing some lessons from pre-K to K-12 classrooms could make a difference. Continue reading