In order to enforce the newest delivery worker minimum pay laws, DCWP needs more funding. The agency's low budget, less than 1% of city total, has left it struggling to respond to worker abuse complaints.

This is apparently HUD's landing page now

“If you’re not enforcing the Fair Housing Act, then it’s just another dead law" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/r...

"when it comes to income, Black two-parent families had about 60 percent of the income of white two-parent families and only 25 percent of the wealth" www.vox.com/policy/46177...

They can't get mad at you for making millions more Americans hungry after you enact the biggest food stamps cut in history if you don't measure hunger anymore www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

Does anyone know a bilingual English/Spanish transcriber who can transcribe an interview done in both languages with an interpreter (but not translate it)? I can pay $2/minute, reach out to brycercovert[at]gmail[dot]com

Transgender people, especially trans women, are already at increased risk of poverty; narrowing the trans community's ability to participate in society is designed to make that inequality even more stark, and deprive people of opportunities.

Diaper need is a problem so big and with so few solutions that I'm always interested when I I come across a new one. This particular one, Diaper Dollars, gives parents an e-card that deducts the price of diapers at checkout. Currently in Illinois and Ohio: 19thnews.org/2025/09/diap...

Republicans just saying out loud that they don't care if more and more Americans are out of work www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Trump eliminated a nearly 10-year-old sexual harassment training requirement for apprenticeships in the trades

“I wept and screamed.” Man whose wife and newborn died after they tried to go to a clinic shuttered due to USAID cuts.

We invest 9X less per child-year in care & education in the first 5 years of life than the next 13. This gap in public investment is why K12 is free for parents & early care & education is expensive. www.hamiltonproject.org/publication/...

New paper finds lack of abortion access leads to "significant economic hardship...lower labor force participation, rising debt, widening income inequality, and heightened housing insecurity." www.nber.org/papers/w34245

America's lowest wage workers were experiencing the fastest wage growth from 2015-2022. Now they are experiencing the slowest wage growth and the most abrupt deceleration.

Excellent reporting from @naveenasadasivam.bsky.social on post-disaster contractor scams grist.org/extreme-weat... "More than a third of people impacted by a disaster report experiencing fraud...contractor fraud has become a lucrative business."

Government efficiency www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

NYC's 'Right to Counsel' is more like a "goal": A new IBO report says just 30 percent of eligible tenants facing eviction get full representation in housing court. Funding for the program has plateaued as evictions rise and eligibility expands. For @citylimitsnews.bsky.social

The military occupation in DC is pushing both childcare workers and the kids they care for to stay home 19thnews.org/2025/09/chil...

I will spoil it for you and say there's nothing in here about starting the school day later so kids can get more sleep, increasing recess time, providing free meals at school and giving kids more time to eat them, expanding nutrition programs, or literally doing anything else proven to work.

This was the fastest pace of inflation, on both a monthly and annual basis, since January 2025.

Yikes.

Why are Black maternal and infant mortality rates so disproportionately high in Houston/Harris County? I’m seeking input from Black birthing people in the area for @chjreportinghealth.bsky.social with @capitalb.bsky.social If interested, share your experience here: bit.ly/birthhou

I've had more than one editor reject a pitch by telling me no one wants to read Covid stories anymore

"The programs are considered vital in those states but represent only a little over $1 million a year in federal money."

You would think I of all people would be able to easily spell "unionize," and yet

[email protected]: "For the first time since data has been available, the wage gap between men and women working full time, year-round widened two years in a row." www.census.gov/newsroom/pre...

Trump's FTC decided not to protect workers from noncompete wage suppression, & did an inadequate one-off enforcement & a fake fact-finding project to cover it up. The one FTC commissioner who blew the whistle on this scheme was fired, courtesy John Roberts. Situation normal, all fucked up. From me:

New Mexico is the first state to commit to free, universal childcare and preschool www.krqe.com/news/politic...

Remember this? Then there are the 26 women who have accused him of sexual harassment, plus his guilty verdict for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll. All context to keep in mind with the Epstein letter. www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kend...

Updated numbers from Democrats: the Trump administration is refusing to spend at least $410 billion in money Congress appropriated in March. The money expires at the end of the month. airtable.com/appvL8eaYoY7...

Amidst some miserable #JobsReport data, Black women's unemployment rate hit 6.7%, the highest it's been in nearly 4 years. It's more than double white women's rate of 3.2%. #NumbersDay

NEW: Trump's nominee to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics ran an anonymous Twitter account filled with sexually degrading attacks on Kamala Harris, anti-gay slurs, and far-right conspiracy theories. www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/p...

DOT officials tried to convince me last year that it was okay that they put this rule out so late because of course Trump would never undo something so popular. Well. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/b...

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

One way to undermine the Civil Rights Act: make sure no one is in the jobs that enforce it www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Trump's immigration agenda is not helping US-born workers US-born unemployment rates are higher in 2025 than in previous years

There are so, so, so many valid reasons to criticize RFK Jr., but his voice and breathing are not one of them. They're caused by a neurological condition and he's already ashamed of it. www.npr.org/2025/01/29/n...

If we're going to have summer camps closed in late August, and start the school with half-days, parent/PTA breakfasts, phase-ins, no afterschool, etc, etc, then perhaps we should CLOSE ALL THE GROWNUP OFFICES for the days before and during the start of school. They do it in France! Just a thought!

Foreign aid funds, including for PEPFAR, are being withheld illegally by the Trump administration despite being appropriated by Congress, advocates and experts say. My latest, featuring @agawande.bsky.social and @jenkatesdc.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Some good news for once: states have expanded their paid family leave programs, and it's made them more accessible and equitable www.the74million.org/zero2eight/s...

Trump's efforts to dissolve union contracts affect 7% of all unionized workers in the US. The vanishing of CBAs, from the EPA to the VA, is already having material consequences: moms forced out of maternity leave, clerical staff answering VA call bells. My latest.

When employment expands with a growing labor market, hires exceed separations (e.g. quits, layoffs, death, retirement). In the federal sector, separations exceeded hires every month since January, a total of 66k. This doesn't count the thousands leaving federal payrolls on Sept 30. #EconSky #JOLTS

A scoop: Connor Clegg, former Charlie Kirk employee who was ousted as student body president over his racist social media posts, is working at the EEOC talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/fo...

EJ Antoni, Trump’s pick to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, shared a Darwinism-inspired theory about inherent differences between men and women's IQs during a talk to Heritage Foundation interns last year. from @jacobbogage.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

This anti-drowning program cost $2 million a year. The National Guard deployment to DC is costing an estimated $1 million a day. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Well timed study finding that raising enrollment barriers in Medicaid keeps eligible and needy people out rather than screening out people who don't need it www.nber.org/papers/w34191

In detailed budget logs it tried to keep from public view, the White House is trying to wrest more control over spending from Congress. (and this was *before* last night's pocket recision) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...

Useful thread here that explains how this illegal maneuver works

The New York Post claims Trump has begun to use Russ Vought's "pocket rescissions" gambit to override Congress' power of the purse. nypost.com/2025/08/28/u...