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Tamikka Burks was in an Arkansas emergency room when she found out she had lost her Medicaid coverage. In mid-September, she went in to deal with a cyst in her [...]

The recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic was the shortest on record, thanks to rapid, robust and bipartisan congressional action. It took just over two years to regain all of [...]

Despite the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and the shock waves it sent through the banking sector -- due, in part, to the bank's risky exposure to higher interest rates [...]

The 117th Congress has finished its work, with little to offer American children. Lawmakers were unable to muster a deal to combine an extension of last year's expanded child tax [...]

El Buen Samaritano, an Episcopal outreach ministry in Texas, serves the east side of Austin, the poorer of the two parts of the city, split by I-35. There are fewer [...]

The United States is one of six countries in the world without a national guarantee of paid parental leave. Twenty-three other countries have universal child or family allowances. We spend [...]

In the face of rising inflation, the Federal Reserve is trying to cool down the economy, raising interest rates by 0.75 percentage point in June, the biggest increase since 1994. [...]

The United States has an incredibly high child poverty rate. Nearly one in seven children lives in a poor family. By comparison, fewer than 10 percent of adults are poor, [...]

Last summer the vast majority of American families with children saw money appear in their bank accounts without doing anything at all. Thanks to legislation passed by Democrats earlier in [...]

At the beginning of the year, Democrats knew they had a rare opportunity to make transformational change. With control of the White House and Congress, they stuffed ambitious programs meant [...]

Democrats are in the thick of it. After coalescing to push through pandemic relief on party-line votes at the beginning of President Biden's term, they're now trying to guide two [...]

With more than half of American adults fully vaccinated against Covid, employers and employees alike have turned their eyes back to the office. They're locked in a conflict over when [...]

''No one should have to choose between a job and a paycheck or taking care of themselves and a loved one -- a parent, spouse or child,'' President Biden told [...]

Ask any of the parents who have spent the last year at home with their children, while trying to participate in Zoom meetings, whether child care enables them to show [...]

The nationwide fight for a $15 minimum wage began on the streets of New York City, when fast food workers staged a strike in 2012. It took Gov. Andrew Cuomo [...]

Biden can improve the lives of hundreds of thousands with a single executive order. President Biden has been very clear. He wants to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 [...]

The end of the year has been awkward for Gov. Andrew Cuomo. As he promotes his new, self-congratulatory book about navigating New York through its first coronavirus wave in the [...]

Voters in both red and blue states have revealed what they want from government. Florida once again offered an electoral conundrum this year. Even as the state's voters filled in [...]

The candidate is talking about child care and elder care in the same breath, and making them part of his economic package. Both changes are long overdue. Joe Biden's recent [...]

We're all rightfully cutting ourselves some slack on the parenting front. So why aren't we and our employers doing the same when it comes to work? With schools and day [...]

The issue is getting more attention than it has in decades, except from the Democratic front-runner. In her parting remarks to her staff this week, Elizabeth Warren took a moment [...]

Bold public programs, available to everyone regardless of need, are political winners. Despite the diversity and number of candidates running for the Democratic presidential nomination, there has been a lot [...]

Jack Ma, the richest man in China and founder of the e-commerce company Alibaba, is a big fan of extreme overwork. He recently praised China's ''996'' practice, so called because [...]

On Monday, Google announced something unusual: After its annual pay equity analysis, it gave most of the raises to adjust for unequal practices to men. The company says that it [...]

It's an extraordinary moment. Amazon just said, ''Goodbye, New York,'' announcing that it was pulling out of its plans to open a headquarters in New York City, in exchange for [...]

Senator Marco Rubio just made a small bit of history: He became the first of his party to put forward a national paid family leave program. On Aug. 2, he [...]

Leslie Moonves is a rainmaker and a kingmaker. As the chief executive of CBS, he transformed the television network from last place to most watched. He's made careers, and he [...]

Anyone with a cellphone should have paid attention to the big merger news on April 29: T-Mobile and Sprint announced their intention to tie the knot after years of speculation. [...]

President Trump just took an unusual step for a Republican: He included a paid family leave plan in his newly released budget. But don't get too excited. It's a retread [...]

A treasure trove of documents given the name of the Paradise Papers was unveiled last week, giving us a clearer idea of how rich people and powerful companies keep their [...]

This month, 41 Democrats introduced a bill with a simple mission: It would undo the Trump administration's recent change to the Affordable Care Act that paves the way for virtually [...]

Because of lax security at Equifax, one of the three major credit reporting companies, the private financial and personal details of as many as 143 million Americans have been exposed [...]

The working woman was everywhere in 1980s and 1990s pop culture: The tough single gal Murphy Brown ran the news on TV every week. Dolly Parton in ''9 to 5,'' [...]

It's finally time to stop believing Republicans when they say they're the party of balanced budgets. For eight years, Republicans warned the American public that we were hurtling toward certain [...]

For more than a decade, women have publicly lodged sexual harassment complaints against the Fox News host Bill O'Reilly. In 2004, a producer on his show, Andrea Mackris, filed a [...]

Ivanka Trump will now have an official job at the White House. It's an unpaid role as an adviser to her father, the president, but it comes with an office, [...]

In his first address to Congress, President Trump made many sweeping pledges, but one of them was familiar to anyone who listened to him campaign. He said that he was [...]

Working mothers, take note: You have won the culture war. Now you are making advances in the policy battle. This presidential race has become, at least in part, a debate [...]

Two high-profile lawsuits against Roger Ailes, the former Fox News chairman, have painted a shocking picture of brazen sexual harassment at the network. In her bombshell complaint against him, the [...]

Hillary Clinton can't make the kind of sweeping promises that voters want to hear. That's the criticism she's faced repeatedly during her run for the White House. She focuses on [...]

THIS year's presidential candidates, like all candidates before them, have talked endlessly about what they'll do to boost the economy if they make it to the White House. The presumptive [...]

DONALD J. TRUMP has promised to Make America Great Again, and people have listened. He is the presumptive Republican nominee. He got there with that one consistent campaign imperative splashed [...]

IN their campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination, both Donald J. Trump and Marco Rubio have said that the American dream is either dead or dying. But for the American [...]

The fact that Americans start voting in a matter of weeks loomed over President Obama's final State of the Union address Tuesday. ''I know some of you are antsy to [...]

HILLARY CLINTON has vowed not to raise taxes on the middle class. It's a pledge that has worked well for others on the campaign trail before her, a resonant assurance [...]

WHAT are politicians talking about when they talk about ''free stuff''? The Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush got caught sounding like a Mitt Romney rerun recently: He told a mostly [...]

WHEN Hillary Rodham Clinton conceded the Democratic presidential nomination to Barack Obama, she hit all the right notes. In her speech, seven years ago this Sunday, she urged everyone who [...]