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<title><![CDATA[Bryce Covert - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/24452.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Bryce Covert]]></description><category domain="24452">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[How the Child Welfare System Becomes Less Traumatizing]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/this-is-how-the-child-welfare-system-becomes-less-traumatizing/ar-AA1R2BuI</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bryce Covert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Wisconsin has shown that it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s cost-effective and completely possible to keep families together by stabilizing their housing. That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not the only promising development in the field.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Predatory Lenders in the Operating Room]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/health/2025-05-28-predatory-lenders-operating-room-medical-credit-cards/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bryce Covert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Medical credit cards have gone mainstream, preying on sick people at their most vulnerable.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[So You Want to Reduce Crime?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/society/crime-social-services/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bryce Covert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What kinds of investments have been proven to lower crime rates? (Hint: It's not directing endless money to the police.)]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Where Defund the Police Isn't Dead]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/society/police-reform-defund/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bryce Covert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Though the politics of police reform have shifted since a year ago, the movement to find new ways to ensure public safety is winning a number of fights in cities across the country.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Anyone Stop the Uberization of the Economy?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/can-anyone-stop-the-uberization-of-the-economy/ar-AAPESeZ</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bryce Covert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In January 2020, Henry DeGroot, an Uber and Lyft driver and organizer with the Boston Independent Drivers Guild (BIDG), walked into a room in one of the Brutalist concrete buildings near Boston'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s city hall that was about the size of a closet and free of windows '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Teachers Fought for Their Safety--and Won]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/society/teachers-unions-covid-pandemic/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bryce Covert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the debate over in-person schooling roiled, teachers' unions secured significant protections'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'often with parents' support.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Meet the New Cuomo. Same as the Old Cuomo]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/04/opinion/cuomo-power-sexual-harassment.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bryce Covert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We should have known who he was all along.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Make Defunding the Police a Reality]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/society/police-reform-defund-activism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bryce Covert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the past half-century, American cities have spent more on policing each year. All of a sudden, nationwide protests have put divestment on the table.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Medicaid Expansion Is Transforming Politics]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/kentucky-medicaid-expansion-voter-turnout/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bryce Covert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even in deep-red states, voters vigorously defend the program'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and they know which party is attacking it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats' $15 Minimum Wage Bill Is a Big Deal]]></title>
							<link>https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-democrats-minimum-wage-bill_us_5c3f78e4e4b027c3bbbd7137</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bryce Covert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For both the party and the millions of workers who need a raise.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats' Biggest Wins Are in Statehouses]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/08/opinion/democrats-statehouse-midterms.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bryce Covert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Forget Congress. State legislatures are where real progressive action is most likely to happen.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Enduring Scam of Corporate Tax Breaks]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/151133/enduring-scam-corporate-tax-breaks</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bryce Covert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why these deals have remained popular in Washington despite the overwhelming evidence that they don't work]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republican Tax Cuts Do Almost Nothing for the 99%]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/145654/gops-15-trillion-tax-plan-almost-nothing-99-percent</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bryce Covert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This week, House Republicans finally unveiled'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' their tax cut package'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' after months of stating vague principles, squabbling over details, and even delaying its release by a day. Even though the plan offered more information than Republicans had been willing to cough up previously, many...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Corporations Create a Culture of Impunity for Harassers]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/145606/corporations-create-culture-impunity-sexual-harassers</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bryce Covert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The New York Times'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' and'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The New Yorker'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' exposed years of alleged sexual harassment and assault by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, the floodgates have been opened across the economy. Allegations have overwhelmed influential figures in industries as diverse as'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' art,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Economy Can't Grow Without Birth Control]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/29/opinion/economy-birth-control.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bryce Covert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This month, 41 Democrats introduced'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' a bill'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' with a simple mission: It would undo the Trump administration'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s recent change to the Affordable Care Act that paves the way for virtually any employer to deny its employees access to contraception without a co-payment. Before President...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Deadbeat Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/144544/deadbeat-democrats-bill-clinton-set-stage-gop-war-poor</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bryce Covert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In June, at a'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' rally'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, President Trump brought 6,000 supporters to their feet, roaring their approval. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I believe the time has come for new immigration rules,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Trump bellowed. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Those seeking admission into our country must be able to support...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's White Supremacist Economic Agenda]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/144390/trumps-white-supremacist-economic-agenda</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bryce Covert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You may be forgiven for forgetting that President Donald Trump on Tuesday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' held a press conference'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' about his plans to rebuild American infrastructure. The presser became instantly notorious for his comments on a seemingly different topic, when he snarled that both sides were to blame...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Back to Work, Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/143602/back-work-how-democrats-win-americans-left-behind-new-economy</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bryce Covert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the wake of Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s election, and amid the wilderness of uncertainty surrounding the presidential race in 2020, one thing is for sure: Democrats need to change the way they talk about the economy. Trump made sweeping promises about jobs that he almost certainly will not...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ivanka Trump a Bad Ambassador for Working Women]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/opinion/ivanka-trump-is-a-bad-ambassador-for-working-women.html?ref=opinion&amp;_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 31 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bryce Covert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ivanka Trump will now have an official job at the White House. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s an unpaid role as an adviser to her father, the president, but it comes with an office, a title and, presumably, an even higher perch from which to fashion herself as a crusader for working women.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why We Strike]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/141160/strike</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bryce Covert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On March 8, International Women'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Day, America is going to have a day without women. A loose coalition of groups has called on women to go on strike from their paid jobs and the unpaid work of being a woman, and to boycott the entire system by refusing to spend money. They will be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Paul Ryan's Misguided Sense of Freedom]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/opinion/paul-ryans-misguided-sense-of-freedom.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bryce Covert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In his first address to Congress, President Trump made many sweeping pledges, but one of them was familiar to anyone who listened to him campaign. He said that he was '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'calling on this Congress to repeal and replace Obamacare'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' and demanding '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'reforms that expand choice,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fight Working Moms Won]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/opinion/campaign-stops/the-fight-working-moms-won.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bryce Covert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Working mothers, take note: You have won the culture war. Now you are making advances in the policy battle. This presidential race has become, at least in part, a debate over how best to help you balance work and home, not whether you should be working at all.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' On Tuesday, Donald J....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ask Not What the President Can Do for the Economy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/20/opinion/campaign-stops/ask-not-what-the-president-can-do-for-the-economy.html?ref=opinion&amp;_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bryce Covert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[THIS year'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s presidential candidates, like all candidates before them, have talked endlessly about what they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ll do to boost the economy if they make it to the White House.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The presumptive Republican nominee, Donald J. Trump, has pledged to create economic growth of as much as...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Of Course Clinton Is a Victim of Sexism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/bryce-covert-hillary-victim-sexism-article-1.2525978</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bryce Covert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Does sexism have anything to do with the intense animosity some Americans, including some Democrats, feel for Hillary Clinton? Yes.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' There are plenty of substantive reasons to disfavor Clinton or to favor Bernie Sanders. Many find Clinton too hawkish on foreign policy. Others are...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sanders' Revolution vs. Clinton's Getting Things Done]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/01/opinion/campaign-stops/bernies-revolution-vs-hillarys-getting-things-done.html?ref=opinion&amp;_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Bryce Covert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are locked in an intense, occasionally nasty, policy battle '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' a fight finally being put to its first voter test today in Iowa. One advocates a single-payer health care system (Mr. Sanders), the other is attacking his plan to make it a reality (Mrs....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mitt All Wrong on Public Sector Employment]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenation.com/blog/168313/romneys-got-it-all-wrong-public-sector-employment</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Bryce Covert</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is the 2012 election going to hinge on voters' beliefs about the government workforce? It seems that at least this week'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s news cycle will. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s an important conversation to have. Public sector job loss is at the heart of our stagnant economy and is a big reason why the recovery...]]></description>
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