Abby Vesoulis

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

Recent Articles

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 and Abby Vesoulis

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

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 and Eliana Dockterman

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

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

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

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

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

How COVID-19 Created a Childcare Catch-22

Tamela Crouch never thought she’d have to worry about childcare again. But when her adult daughter died from complications of a heart infection in 2014, Crouch moved to Montana to help raise her toddler granddaughters...

By Abby Vesoulis

'A Five-Alarm Fire'

With nearly 40% of U.S. adults unable to afford an emergency expense of $400, many have turned to food charities for help as the economy comes to a near-halt

By Abby Vesoulis / Dayton, Ohio

Sen. Klobuchar on Whether She's Talked to Biden About Joining His Ticket

Amid the virtual town halls she is hosting for the former vice president, some pundits have suggested Biden may pick Klobuchar to be his running mate

By Abby Vesoulis

This Nonprofit Helped Invent Compact Disks and Barcodes. Now It Can Decontaminate Millions of N95 Masks

On March 14, Kevin Hommema, an aerosol scientist at Battelle, a Columbus, Ohio-based research and development nonprofit, sent an email to his boss with a new idea: What if Battelle repurposed an older chemical decontamination...

By Abby Vesoulis

Can Government Help People Who Can't Pay Rent?

Jacob Williams Kendrick’s life has been turned upside down. Less than three weeks ago, the Eastern Michigan University student was balancing mechanical engineering courses, interviews for summer internships, and a part-time catering gig. But by...

By Abby Vesoulis

Stimulus May Come Last to Those Who Need It Most

A little less than three weeks ago, when the number of people infected with the COVID-19 virus began to spike, Mikael Laboy found himself in a tough spot. The 21-year-old’s job at a biotechnology company...

By Abby Vesoulis and Alana Abramson

Battling COVID-19, Healthcare Workers Face Shortages

At the Southeast Florida emergency room where 62-year-old nurse Penny Blake works, hospital administrators put gloves, cleaning supplies, and N-95 masks behind lock and key because people were stealing them.Twelve hundred miles away, at Mt....

By Abby Vesoulis

COVID-19 Leads to Paid Leave—But Millions Won't Be Eligible

Trump signed the bill into law Wednesday night

By Abby Vesoulis

Universal Basic Income Gains Traction

When entrepreneur Andrew Yang announced he was running for President, many considered him to be an unorthodox candidate. As a successful entrepreneur who attended an Ivy League law school and founded Venture for America, a...

By Abby Vesoulis

‘The Moment is Crying Out For It.’ Coronavirus Could Bring You Paid Leave Benefits

Congress is currently hashing out a deal.

By Abby Vesoulis

Coronavirus May Disproportionately Hurt the Poor—And That's Bad for Everyone

As COVID-19 continues to spread across the United States—infecting at least 1,000 people in more than 35 states, as of Wednesday afternoon—experts are recommending that people avoid large crowds, stockpile shelf-stable foods in case they...

By Abby Vesoulis

Here's How Coronavirus Is Affecting Voter Turnout

In season one of ABC’s Designated Survivor series, a show that conceptualizes what it would be like if American democracy had to rebuild after most top officials were killed in a terrorist attack, there’s an...

By Abby Vesoulis
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