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.
Madysen Luebke
MacDowell Awards Winter-Spring Fellowships to 87 Artists
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
As they say, some personal news:
Breadsticks from a Different Time
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
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
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
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
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
Stocking the Market
The city’s eyeing a new tool for fighting obesity: Bodegas By Tracie McMillan, available at City Limits. It’s a boiling July morning in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Terry “Speedo” Moore, 43, is stopping in at the corner store for some chips and cigarettes. Compact, muscular and sporting a gold tooth, Moore’s appearance suggests a rocky life–and … Read more
The Other Olympics
By Tracie McMillan. Originally published in City Limits. NEW YORKERS antsy for some international athletic competition needn’t wait for the Olympic Committee’s upcoming decision: This Fourth of July weekend, New York will play host to the Cycle Messenger WorldChampionships, a grassroots-y, slightly debauched take on global sporting contests. Equal parts trade show, family reunion, party … Read more
