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Emily Wagster Pettus

Covers Mississippi politics for The Associated Press.

• EPA leader: Jackson needs ‘fair share’ of funds to fix water

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Sebastian Martinez Hickey

Sebastian Martinez Hickey joined the Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN) team at EPI as a research assistant in 2021. Hickey supports the EARN team through data collection and analysis...

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

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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

• Amidst sweeping anti-trans legislative assault, queer community fights back
• Not so different: Whether barista or miner, workers face the same enemy

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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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