Abby Vesoulis

Abby Vesoulis is a political reporter in TIME's Washington bureau.

Recent Articles

Why Workers Are Quitting Their Jobs

"Workers are burned out. They're fed up. They're fried."

By Abby Vesoulis

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

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

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

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

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 strip...

By Abby Vesoulis/Compton, CA and Abigail Abrams

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

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

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

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

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.The...

By Abby Vesoulis

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

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

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

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

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 and Lissandra Villa

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

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

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 and Abby Vesoulis

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 and Mariah Espada
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