Five Americans describe how sweeping cuts that offer basic supports to help make ends meet will affect them By Jeremy Slevin With the ink barely dry on President Trump and Congressional Republicans’ tax bill, the President’s budget lays plain how they plan to pay for it — by slashing Medicaid…

By Jocelyn Frye In 2014, at the White House Summit on Working Families, a small group of businesses came together to talk about the changing nature of families and the implications for workplace policies. These leaders recognized that businesses — through improved retention, productivity, and profitability — are uniquely positioned…

By Kate Bahn This week in Philadelphia, women are taking center stage at the Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA), the largest economics conference in the country. After the scandalous Economic Job Market Rumors study by Alice Wu revealed the horrifying depth and breadth of sexism in the field, finding, for…

By Seth Hanlon, Alex Rowell and Galen Hendricks House and Senate Republicans struck a final deal on their tax plan this past Friday, and plan to jam the bill through both chambers this week. The final bill breaks numerous promises that President Trump and Congressional Republicans have made to their…

By Billy Corriher Things just keep getting worse for Jeff Mateer, President Trump’s nominee for a lifetime seat on the federal bench in Texas. Media reports have uncovered even more disturbing and outlandish statements he has made, comparing contraception health insurance coverage to events in Nazi Germany. In a newly…

By Annie McGrew and Kate Bahn The day after Donald Trump was elected, Merriam Webster reported that “misogyny” was one of the top words searched that day, along with “racist,” “bigot,” and “xenophobe”. …

By Michele Jawando and Billy Corriher In the last two weeks, three different federal courts have ruled that Texas discriminated against certain voters. This prompted many voting rights advocates to point out that white supremacy does not always come with a white hood or carrying torches in a march. …

By John Norris At his latest somewhat unhinged public rally, Donald Trump declared of the North American Free Trade Agreement, “Personally, I don’t think we can make a deal because we have been so badly taken advantage of,” adding, “I think we’ll end up probably terminating NAFTA at some point.”…

By Connor Maxwell On Saturday, thousands of white nationalists, Klansmen, and neo-Nazis descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, purportedly to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. The heavily armed mob marched through the streets, chanting messages of hate, and attacking city residents and university students. In…