Bryce Covert

Are you an employee facing unfair or unsafe conditions at work? Have you tried to access a government benefit and been wrongfully denied or run into arbitrary barriers? You can always send me a tip: brycecovert@protonmail.com

Amazon is routinely violating the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, a new law that grants pregnant people rights to protect their health at work thenation.com/article/societ…

After Illinois became the first state to abolish cash bail, it put money toward helping people return to court and avoid the legal system in the future thenation.com/article/societ…

Ohio Republicans' "solutions" for supposed "fraud" in childcare are just going to hurt the industry the74million.org/zero2eight/ohi…

The EEOC's lawsuit against the New York Times rests on a "pathetic" legal argument, a former agency chair told me theintercept.com/2026/05/06/eeo…

Virginia is officially the first state in the South to pass paid family leave the74million.org/zero2eight/vir…

Trump's evisceration of the federal workforce has hit Black women particularly hard capitalandmain.com/federal-job-cu…

The EEOC now says federal law doesn't protect workers from gender identity discrimination and trans people don't exist thenation.com/article/societ…

The bond amounts families have to cobble together to get loved ones out of detention under the second Trump administration have absolutely skyrocketed talkingpointsmemo.com/news/under-tru…

States are increasingly leaving parents in limbo when they seek help paying for childcare the74million.org/zero2eight/sta…

The movement to end prison slavery just notched a huge victory in Colorado boltsmag.org/colorado-rulin…

What should a community do when climate change threatens it with catastrophic flooding? I profiled a unique and ambitious plan in Rhode Island sierraclub.org/sierra/2026-1-…

Zohran Mamdani won in part on municipal grocery stores--an idea that's already a reality in Atlanta bonappetit.com/story/zohran-m…

“Somebody can come with a gun and shoot us. That is a big fear." thenation.com/article/societ…

The EEOC just hired a guy who was suspended from his college over a rape accusation and then sued the college alleging it had violated his gender rights theintercept.com/2026/02/04/eeo…

New research finds high childcare prices make mothers rethink whether and when to have kids the74million.org/zero2eight/the…

The EEOC, the federal agency tasked with protecting workers' civil rights, is about to erase a document that helped workers fight harassment thenation.com/article/politi…

If Trump actually cared about fraud he would start with TANF in deep red Mississippi. Instead, he let the state off the hook. thenation.com/article/societ…

Trump is trying to use decades-old allegations of fraud in Minnesota to hurt childcare programs everywhere the74million.org/zero2eight/tru…

The Trump administration has rolled back fair housing enforcement to the pre-Civil Rights era thenation.com/article/politi…

The EEOC has turned its back on a powerful tool for fighting workplace discrimination thenation.com/article/societ…