Booting 18-Year-Olds From Disability Rolls Has Lifelong Consequences
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In September 2017, the Social Security Administration sent Gabriel Burgos’ family a letter warning that their income would be cut in half. Gabriel—a Brooklyn high schooler who lived with his mother, Marlena, and father, Jorge, in a public housing…
Trump’s Wall “Feels Like if Someone Got a Knife and Dragged It Across My Heart”
Arizona leaders and activists hold a rally in Tucson in 2019 to protest construction of the border wall, which they said would block animal migration, destroy Native American sites, and harm endangered species. Christopher Brown/ZUMA Wire Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get…
Trump Isn’t Waging a War on Poverty. He’s Waging a War on Poor People.
Mother Jones illustration; Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Mr. Smith, a 45-year-old man living in Washington, DC, scrapes together what passes for a living selling a local newspaper as a street vendor, for which he earns $20 a day—on a good day. Each month, he receives $194 from the the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as SNAP…