Madysen Luebke, Author at Tracie McMillan

On Reports of Harassment from Edouardo Jordan

April 1, 2024June 14, 2021

Twitter ThreadJune 14, 2021 Phenomenal reporting from @asiakmfields and @JackieVarriano on Edouardo Jordan in Seattle: “Edouardo Jordan, acclaimed Seattle chef, accused by 15 women of sexual misconduct or unwanted touching.” Full disclosure: In 2019, I reported a Food & Wine story about “great restaurants to work for.” We included @JuneBabySeattle. This was not an investigative … Read more

RSF Announces 2020-2021 Visiting Journalists

April 1, 2024June 15, 2020

The Russell Sage Foundation is pleased to announce the selection of four visiting journalists for the 2020-2021 academic year: Clara Hemphill, Tracie McMillan, Melissa Segura, and Mosi Secret. Their journalistic work on a range of urgent issues in American life, including school segregation, as well as racism in social safety net policies and in the criminal justice system, intersects … Read more

Maximus Inc.’s Safety Net Contracts

April 20, 2026February 21, 2020

Type Investigations
February 21, 2020

Type Investigations and Mother Jones have compiled the most comprehensive database of the company’s contracts for public benefits to date.

MacDowell Awards Winter-Spring Fellowships to 87 Artists

April 1, 2024January 14, 2020

January 14, 2020 Seven international artists join Americans from across the country The MacDowell Colony has awarded Fellowships to 87 artists from 21 states and seven countries. The incoming Fellows reflect seven artistic disciplines and will arrive from locales as far apart as Poland, Mexico, Belgium, and Israel, as well as Tennessee, Washington, and Minnesota. … Read more

The White Bonus Book Announcement

April 1, 2024April 17, 2019

As they say, some personal news:

Breadsticks from a Different Time

January 22, 2025April 16, 2019

Bon Appétit
April 16, 2019

The Detroit suburbs have gone through a massive demographic change in the past 60 years. Gino’s has been around during all of it.

National Geographic International Cover Story

April 1, 2024November 18, 2018

Some fun personal news: My “Future of Food” piece for National Geographic Magazine landed on the cover of ten international editions, with the unsettling-but-gorgeous photography of Grant Cornett. Also available, not on the cover, in the November U.S. edition

The SNAP Gap: Benefits Aren’t Enough To Keep Many Recipients Fed

January 22, 2025March 3, 2016

Read the original on NPR. Nearly one-third of households on SNAP, formerly known as food stamps, still have to visit a food pantry to keep themselves fed, according to data highlighted this week by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In 2014, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program supported 23 million American households. The same year, 32 … Read more

Looks Good on Paper: With welfare-to-work, presentation is everything

January 22, 2025August 1, 2008

By Tracie McMillanRead the original publication in Harper’s Magazine. The welfare system was overhauled, in 1996, on the premise that the un-employed and supposedly unemployable could be forced into jobs. Tougher restrictions on welfare, we were told, would lead the poor to self-sufficiencyand eventually to upward mobility. But to enter the job market, welfare’s millions … Read more

Welfare Withheld: New State Reg Would Delay Benefits

January 22, 2025November 14, 2005

By Tracie McMillan, available at City Limits. State officials are considering temporarily cutting people from the welfare rolls if they reach the federal five-year time limit, City Limits has learned. In an obscure regulatory change announced for consideration in mid-October, the State Office for Temporary and Disability Assistance put forth plans to require families to submit a … Read more