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Sharon Lerner

Sharon Lerner covers health, the environment, foreign aid and the agencies that govern them.

• What is the Trump administration doing with foreign aid money?

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Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Anna Maria Barry-Jester reports on global public health and the agencies that govern it, including the NIH, IHS, USAID and CDC.

• What is the Trump administration doing with foreign aid money?

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Delaney Nolan

Delaney Nolan writes for The Lens

• In rural communities, fears amplified by ‘AI slop’ and social media hamper solar boom

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Jessica Priest

Jessica Priest covers higher education, working in partnership with Open Campus. She joined the Tribune in 2022 as an engagement reporter in the ProPublica/Texas Tribune joint investigative unit, contributing to...

• Professors sue Texas A&M System over limits on teaching race, gender

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Christina Ayon

Christina Ayon is an intern at the Economic Policy Institute.

• Republican budget worsens underfunding of worker protection agencies

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Margaret Poydock

Margaret Poydock joined EPI in 2016. As a senior policy analyst, she works on issues of unions, labor standards, and strikes. She also helps manage EPI’s legislative and policy initiatives...

• Republican budget worsens underfunding of worker protection agencies

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Lisa Song

Lisa Song reports on the EPA and related agencies that oversee the environment, climate change and science.

• A new Trump rule could exclude U.S. scientists from critical discoveries

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Shira Leeder

Shira Leeder is a local Disabilities Rights activist in San Jose.

• The work continues: Effects of the ADA and Disability Pride Month

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Danaka Katovich

Danaka Katovich is the National Co-Director of CODEPINK.

• Reverse Robin Hood: How the Pentagon is robbing all of us

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