Most Americans Think Teachers Deserve More Money
Some 50,000 educators marched on the Arizona State Capitol on Thursday.Jeff Brown/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This week, thousands of teachers in Arizona and Colorado descended on statehouses to demand better pay and school funding. It appears many Americans agree with them—and support their efforts to shut down…
Stressed, Struggling, and Suicidal: America’s Farmers Are Begging for Mental Health Services
Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Farmers’ advocacy groups called on Congress Monday to reauthorize, “with adequate funding,” a program that provides mental health services to distressed American farmers and their families. “Despite the growing need,” notes a letter to House and Senate agricultural committees signed by 36 rural and farming…
These Oklahoma Teens Are Channeling the Parkland Student Movement to Demand Better School Funding
Edwin Rios/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On stage Wednesday before the steps of the Oklahoma state Capitol building, in front of thousands of teachers, parents, and kids like them, 14 students from schools surrounding Oklahoma City took the stage to demand a better life for them and their teachers. Landen Brumley, a sixth-grader…
Thousands of Teachers in Red States Are Leading the Charge for Better School Funding
Teachers picket around the Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma City on Monday. Sue Ogrocki/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday morning, tens of thousands of Oklahoma teachers stormed the state Capitol to urge lawmakers to approve better pay and more funding for their classrooms. At the same time, more than 800 miles away, a similar…
California’s Housing Crisis Is So Bad, Families Are Squatting Abandoned Homes Just to Survive
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When I ask Christine Hernandez, a mother of four, slender in stature and bold in manner, how best to scout for abandoned homes—the bleak dwellings with the boarded-up windows and ripped-out drywall, their innards packed with leftover syringes, rotting debris, and the peculiar loot of…
California Has a Controversial Plan to Solve Its Housing Crisis. Drivers Aren’t Going to Like It.
tommaso79/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The San Francisco-Bay Area did a remarkable job of rebounding from the 2008 Recession: The region has since added 640,000 new jobs, and its unemployment rate hovers around three percent. But as you’ve probably heard, the area’s housing supply hasn’t kept up with its population growth,…