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Abby Vesoulis
Abby Vesoulis is a political reporter in TIME's Washington bureau.
Recent Articles
How Unions Are Struggling to Catch Up to Worker Anger
James Geiger, a 53-year-old John Deere machinist in Waterloo, Iowa, is fed up with two things. The first is how newer workers are treated by the agricultural machinery manufacturer compared to older ones. After 19...
By Abby Vesoulis
October 25, 2021
What the Labor Movement Needs to Keep 'Striketober' Going, According to New AFL-CIO Leader Liz Shuler
(To receive weekly emails of conversations with the world’s top CEOs and business decisionmakers, click here.) As a burgeoning labor shortage precipitated 10 million job openings and millions of Americans voluntarily leaving their jobs in...
By Abby Vesoulis
October 24, 2021
Why Workers Are Quitting Their Jobs
"Workers are burned out. They're fed up. They're fried."
By Abby Vesoulis
October 13, 2021
What Facebook’s Very Bad Week Means for Antitrust Reform
Facebook's week of bad news has brought urgency to long-running calls to update the country’s laws governing monopolies
By Abby Vesoulis
October 7, 2021
The Problem With Housing Choice Vouchers
The only thing that's clear after a week of Democratic infighting on Capitol Hill over a proposed $3.5 trillion social spending package is that lawmakers will have to trim hundreds of billions—if not trillions—from their...
By Abby Vesoulis
October 4, 2021
Dems’ Infighting Jeopardizes Housing Vouchers
As Democrats spar over a sweeping bipartisan infrastructure bill and an even bigger budget reconciliation package that includes funding for everything from universal pre-k to free community college, the fate of a historic investment in...
By Abby Vesoulis
September 30, 2021
How Texas’ Abortion Ban Will Lead to More At-Home Abortions
A new anti-abortion restriction in Texas is fueling awareness of self-managed abortions and how to access them. "The conservative legislators are actually helping us do our jobs," the co-founder of Plan C, purveyor of self-managed abortion information, tells TIME.
By Abby Vesoulis
September 21, 2021
Inside the Nation's Largest Guaranteed Income Experiment
One evening in early June, Leo and his family were able to enjoy a treat they hadn’t experienced in months: a sit-down meal at a restaurant. At a fried chicken chain in a Compton, California...
By Abby Vesoulis/Compton, CA
September 16, 2021
Labor Secretary Marty Walsh Wants to Improve Blue-Collar Work. Can He Convince Washington?
Having an exceptionally productive month at work could ruin Chloe Morgan. A single mother to four boys under the age of ten, Morgan is a saleswoman in Dayton, Ohio, with a $30,000 base salary that...
By Abby Vesoulis / Dayton, OH
September 3, 2021
U.S. Implements Largest Food Stamps Increase in History
As expanded unemployment benefits, a near-nationwide eviction moratorium, a pause on federal student loan payments and other temporary pandemic-related government benefits near their expiration dates, the Biden Administration announced on Monday that it was going...
By Abby Vesoulis
August 16, 2021
CDC Issues New Eviction Moratorium Amid Standoff Between White House and Progressive Democrats
Raven Sullivan is awake responding to emails at 2:05 a.m. She recently received notice that her landlord wants to evict her and her two toddlers from their Georgia rental home over roughly $2,600 in unpaid...
By Abby Vesoulis
August 3, 2021
Inside the Quest to Distribute Billions in Rental Assistance Before Eviction Moratoriums Expire
Katrina Dennis, 51, was so sure she would be evicted from her Phoenix, Arizona rental home that she had already started packing to move in with family. The pandemic cost Dennis her airline customer relations...
By Abby Vesoulis
July 23, 2021
How 7 Parents Will Use New Child Tax Credit
It felt like Christmas in July for more than 35 million American families this week, when they began receiving a collective $15 billion in their bank accounts in the form of expanded child tax credits....
By Abby Vesoulis
July 16, 2021
IRS Is Close to Breaking Point as Child Tax Credits Roll Out
With new responsibilities doling out COVID-19 relief and child tax credits, the understaffed, underfunded IRS is falling dangerously behind
By Abby Vesoulis
June 29, 2021
Amazon’s MGM Purchase Could Put the Company in Washington’s Crosshairs
Imagine you invite friends over for a movie night on a new flatscreen TV purchased on Amazon Prime. The gathering is last minute, but the television was delivered to you in two days through Amazon’s...
By Abby Vesoulis
May 28, 2021
Karen Bass and Derrick Johnson Discuss Police Reform
The United States has faced a racial reckoning in the 365 days since former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, by kneeling on his neck for nine minutes and...
By Abby Vesoulis
May 25, 2021
Are Childcare and Paid Leave ‘Infrastructure’?
Three weeks after Bethany Fauteux gave birth to her second child in 2013, she was spending her days surrounded by young children—except they weren’t her own. A single mother whose cash reserves were quickly depleting,...
By Abby Vesoulis
May 11, 2021
Bipartisan Talks on Police Reform Advance—Delicately
A small bipartisan group of lawmakers in Washington are making an urgent push to get a police reform bill passed in Congress in the wake of a Minneapolis jury finding Derek Chauvin, a white former...
By Abby Vesoulis
April 30, 2021
How Amazon Won the Preliminary Union Vote in Alabama
After months of campaigning, weeks of voting, and hours of counting thousands of green ballots by hand, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) delivered Amazon an apparent win on Friday afternoon against the most significant...
By Abby Vesoulis
April 9, 2021
Why Amazon's Alabama Union Vote Could Spur Labor Movement
The move could signify a revitalization of private-sector union membership that has been in steady decline for decades
By Abby Vesoulis
March 27, 2021
Can Guaranteed Income Improve the Health of Moms and Kids?
When Maile Chand reminisces about her 2016 pregnancy, the first thing that comes to mind isn’t how she prepared her daughter’s nursery or vetted baby names. Instead, she remembers constantly struggling to find enough money...
By Abigail Abrams
March 18, 2021
How Women Are Tackling Hunger in Their Communities
Amid a growing hunger crisis and a patchy federal safety net, these women are finding ways to feed their communities
By Abby Vesoulis
March 3, 2021
How COVID-19 Brought the Next Housing Crisis
Millions of tenants are behind on rent, mom-and-pop landlords are struggling, and a looming wave of evictions will make everything worse
By Abby Vesoulis/Seattle
February 18, 2021
Why Amazon’s $62 Million FTC Labor Settlement Is a Big Deal
On Tuesday morning, Amazon unveiled a futuristic Northern Virginia HQ2 campus design. Late that afternoon, the company released its blockbuster Q4 earnings report and simultaneously revealed that its founder Jeff Bezos would end his reign...
By Abby Vesoulis
February 4, 2021
Rising GOP Star Madison Cawthorn Peddles a New Trumpism
The 25-year-old's contradictory messaging reflects a party uncertain of its own future
By Abby Vesoulis
January 27, 2021
Mass Transit Teeters on the Edge of Collapse
Facing declines in ridership due to COVID-19, mass transit systems are on the brink of collapse. Will Congress save them?
By Abby Vesoulis
December 17, 2020
Biden Faces the Politics of Debt Forgiveness
Roughly two months out from Inauguration Day, Joe Biden is already facing a brewing political storm among his ideologically-diverse base of supporters, who disagree over the issue of student loan forgiveness. As COVID-19 cases continue...
By Abby Vesoulis
November 30, 2020
Food Banks Strained During COVID-19 Pandemic
Food insecurity is increasing as unemployment rates continue to rise—but food banks are straining to meet the increase in demand
By Abby Vesoulis
November 23, 2020
Map Guru Steve Kornacki on Surviving Election Week
By the time NBC and MSNBC National Political Correspondent Steve Kornacki sat down with me for a 30-minute Zoom interview on Tuesday, Nov. 10, I was surprised he was still able to sit upright: The...
By Abby Vesoulis
November 12, 2020
President-Elect Biden's Ambitious Economic Proposals Face a Divided Congress
Biden's ambitious plans to remake the economy must pass a divided Congress
By Abby Vesoulis
November 12, 2020
How the Mail-In Versus In-Person Voting Divide Gave America Whiplash
More Americans voted by mail in this election than any other in U.S. history
By Abby Vesoulis
November 4, 2020
Count Continues as Trump Falsely Claims Win
As state and local election officials continue to count ballots across the country and with the fate of most battleground states still up in the air, President Donald Trump delivered a short, disjointed speech from...
By Tessa Berenson
November 4, 2020
Why Early Election Results May Be Misleading
July was supposed to be the month that Ritchie Torres, an impassioned 32-year-old New York City Councilman, began planning his transition from representing the Bronx in City Hall to fighting for the same borough in...
By Abby Vesoulis
November 3, 2020
NAACP President: Voters' Fears Loom Large
In the face of recent catastrophic crises, rallying cries like "the pandemic doesn’t discriminate" and “we’re all in this together" have become popular in the United States. The problem is, neither phrase is really true....
By Abby Vesoulis
October 27, 2020
The Biggest Moments From the Final Debate
Donald Trump and Joe Biden are debating for the final time before the election. Follow along for the biggest moments
By Philip Elliott
October 22, 2020
How COVID-19 Is Pushing Women Out of Work
The United States is in the midst of a crushing economic recession, COVID-19 infection rates are spiking, and thousands of schools and childcare facilities have yet to reopen in-person classrooms. The group bearing the brunt...
By Abby Vesoulis
October 17, 2020
Trump's Attitude Rankles Some Who Suffered From COVID
Jodi Click, who suffers from severe Crohn's Disease, has long been accustomed to frequent doctors visits and medical procedures. But nothing prepared the 40-year-old for her lengthy battle with COVID-19 this year. After contracting the...
By Abby Vesoulis
October 6, 2020
The Recession Is About to Get Much Worse for Some
As Tuesday’s chaotic Presidential debate shifted to a discussion about the U.S. economy, President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden seemed, yet again, to be operating in different stratospheres. As Trump boasted—without corroborating...
By Abby Vesoulis
September 30, 2020
Trump's Former Housekeeper Paid More Taxes Than Her Boss
In 2011, Sandra Diaz had $413.14 withheld in federal income taxes — that's more than the $0 that Trump paid that year
By Abby Vesoulis
September 30, 2020
Why 'Cancel-Rent' Hasn't Been Feasible
Ithaca’s futile attempt to cancel rent illustrates the struggles cities face in responding to economic crises
By Abby Vesoulis
September 18, 2020
Has COVID-19 Destroyed the Childcare Industry?
Thousands of daycare centers may close because of the pandemic, leaving the working parents who rely on them in the lurch
By Abby Vesoulis
September 8, 2020
Trump Eviction Rule Delays Evictions—For Now
In her late 20s, Katrina Bilella was beyond proud to become a first-time homeowner in the storied neighborhood of Logan Square, Chicago. So when her human resources job required her to move to Colorado in...
By Abby Vesoulis
September 2, 2020
By Embroiling the Postal Service in Controversy and Shaking Americans’ Confidence in Mail Voting, Trump Wins
By embroiling the Postal Service in controversy and shaking Americans' confidence in mail voting, the President wins
By Haley Sweetland Edwards
August 20, 2020
California Rep. Katie Porter Schools Congress With a White Board
About a decade ago, Kamala Harris called up Elizabeth Warren to ask for a tip. It was the messy aftermath of the Great Recession, and Harris, then California's attorney general, needed a recommendation for someone...
By Abby Vesoulis
August 6, 2020
Pandemic Schemes: How Multilevel Marketing Distributors Are Using the Internet—and the Coronavirus—to Grow Their Businesses
As most retail businesses struggle, multilevel marketing distributors are using the internet--and COVID-19--to grow their businesses
By Abby Vesoulis
July 9, 2020
Andrew Yang Discusses Possible Cabinet Role
In 2017, Andrew Yang was considered a long-shot presidential candidate, most well-known for founding Venture For America: a successful nonprofit that partners recent college graduates with jobs at startups in mid-sized cities. But by January...
By Abby Vesoulis
June 29, 2020
12 Ways the Trump Administration Has Deepened Inequality
The long fight toward equality in the U.S. is often recounted by listing banner acts of Congress and the Supreme Court. Every child learns about the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision and the...
By Abby Vesoulis
June 25, 2020
How Rent Protections Hurt Small Landlords
In the mid-1960s, Greta Arceneaux was a young mother of two in the midst of a divorce with a low-paying secretarial job and an old house in Los Angeles. Dreaming of a better life for...
By Abby Vesoulis
June 11, 2020
Fighting the 'Perfect Storm' of Food Shortages
Since the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered gyms, restaurants, retail shops, and other businesses across the country, more than 36 million Americans have signed up for unemployment insurance. Still on the hook for rent, car notes and...
By Abby Vesoulis
May 15, 2020
White House Pushes to Curb Food Stamps Amid COVID-19
The new requirements would strip 688,000 Americans of their food benefits
By Abby Vesoulis
May 13, 2020
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