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Dave Kamper

Dave Kamper is the senior state policy coordinator for the Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN) at EPI. He believes that worker power and racial equity are necessary components to...

• Keeping up: 12 states, D.C. tie minimum wage increases to inflation rate

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Reid Hulleza

Reid Hulleza is an AFT union worker and student activist at Wayne State University in Detroit.

• Fighting to keep the lights on: Detroit residents vs. electricity monopoly profits

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Brooklyn Crawford

Brooklyn Crawford is a visual artist, writer, and actor living in Brooklyn, N.Y.

• U.S. Student Association tells Congress: Save education, Stop the SAVE Act
• Amidst sweeping anti-trans legislative assault, queer community fights back

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Pooja Salhotra

East Texas reporter for the Texas Tribune.

• Los aranceles de Trump a México podrían devastar la región fronteriza de Texas
• Trump tariffs on Mexico could devastate Texas border region

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Becky Bohrer

The Associated Press' political and statehouse reporter in Juneau, Alaska.

• Environmental groups cheer as restrictions on logging corporations reinstated in Alaska
• Peltola beats Palin, wins Alaska House special election

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Patrick Eaton-Robb

Newsman and Sports Writer at Associated Press.

• At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt

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Emily Corwin

Emily Corwin was a Nieman and Nieman-Abrams investigative reporting fellow at Harvard University from 2020 to 2022. She previously worked as an investigative reporter for Vermont Public Radio and as...

• Government subsidizing replacement of permanent workers with temps

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Jessie Blaeser

Jessie Blaeser is a data journalist at Grist. Her work has also been featured on Inkport.org and Catalyst Media, and she is a certified NetGalley member.

• EPA issues rare veto, bringing Alaska’s Pebble mine to a halt
• EPA’s proposed air pollution standards for soot could save thousands of lives

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Harriet Jones

Harriet Jones writes from Washington D.C.

• D.C. voters end substandard tipped minimum wage, again
• Affordable housing and police reform define D.C.’s at-large city council race

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