PPP Lending Was Supposed to Help Small Businesses in Kansas City. That’s Not What Happened.
Aerial of the Kansas City Urban Orchard.Rich Sugg / The Kansas City Star Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was co-published in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity and the Kansas City Star. Darryl…
Planes, Trains, and Working Women
Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.The carpenters training facility near Pittsburgh looked just like the sort of place where President Joe Biden would roll out a jobs and infrastructure plan. There was the circular saw perched…
“Someone Decided It Was Okay to Poison Us”
A well and pump jack in Los Angeles County.(Citizen of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group/Getty) Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by Yale E360 and is reproduced here as part of the…
Joe Biden’s Economic Recovery Has a Narrative. Now It Needs a Legacy.
Alex Brandon/AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Joe Biden took a victory lap when he went on the TV airwaves for his first presidential address last Thursday. “America is coming back,” he announced, a comeback premised…
Even With the Proposed Wealth Tax, Billionaires Would Get Richer Faster Than Everyone Else
Sen. Elizabeth WarrenAnna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.On Monday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), along with Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and Brendan Boyle (D-Penn.), rolled out a new version of the ultrawealth tax plan…
This Agency Could Push Banks to Fight Inequality—and Biden Has to Decide Who Should Run It
Mother Jones illustration; University of Michigan; Wikimedia Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Two years after the 2008 financial crisis, a government commission began releasing their findings on the causes of the worst economic downturn in nearly…