Cutting Off Unemployment Insurance Bonus Will Disproportionately Hurt People of Color
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, one of the first Republican governors to announce he was cutting off pandemic-era unemployment insurance.Rogelio V. Solis/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.Republican governors’ newest form of economic stimulus is anti-stimulus: cutting…
Young Black Residents Are Bearing the Brunt of Michigan’s Recent COVID-19 Surge
Certified medical assistant Vernest Lacy administers a second dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to Theodore Heggler, of Benton Harbor, Michigan. Don Campbell/The Herald-Palladium/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.Michigan is in the midst of a…
False Barriers: These Things Should Not Prevent You From Getting a COVID Vaccine
A woman receives a COVID-19 vaccine at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. United States Army/ ZUMA 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 published in partnership with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.…
The Best Way to Protect Abortion Rights Right Now Is to End a Racist, Classist Federal Budget Amendment
Elijah Nouvelage/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.Abortion advocates are finally on the offensive. Having barely made it through the last four years with Roe intact, the groups battling to protect the right to abortion can now,…
How Our Tax Code Is Rigged Against Black Americans
Emory law professor Dorothy BrownAnn Watson 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.Emory University law professor Dorothy Brown saw a lot as a girl growing up in the South Bronx, including a white cop beating a handcuffed…
COVID Relief Efforts Want to Offer Citizenship to Essential Workers. But This Group Is Falling Through the Cracks.
Farmworkers wear face masks while harvesting curly mustard in February 2021 in Ventura County, California. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via 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.A year ago, when the coronavirus pandemic caused the shutdown of…