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Rachel Cohen Booth
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Journalist @voxdotcom, covering housing, family policy, homelessness. book forthcoming April 2027 with @penguinrandom about agency and social change
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    Rachel Cohen Booth
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    Mar 23
    got to watch this little guy look at the sky for the first time on our way home from the hospital. I'll be off from work for the next few months caring for him, and seeing him take in what I hope are many more firsts. welcome to the world, Jesse ❤️
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    Apr 15, 2020
    .@iamcardib just said "the youth don't really rock with Joe Biden because he's conservative" and that Obama picked Biden as VP to get the conservative vote
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    Apr 17, 2021
    I’ll never forget my freshman year of college meeting graduates of nyc private schools who expected I would recognize their schools’ names and know general stuff about them
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    Jun 22, 2021
    there have been several stories I've reported where sources who have worked on an issue for years and years told me things really shifted politically for them once John Oliver ran a segment on it. just happened again today. kind of remarkable
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    Jul 6, 2024
    this has real asking your grandma to give up her driver's license energy and it's pretty depressing
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    Feb 18, 2025
    i think it has not sunk in for people, including newspaper headline writers, that "probationary" employees does not just mean like, young novice staffers right out of college, but those who have received promotions in the last year
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    Jul 7, 2022
    what is the end goal here? genuinely asking
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    Rachel Cohen Booth
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    Jan 3, 2022
    the texts I’ve been having with my covid positive doctor friends recently…
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    May 11, 2023
    this is not unique ?!?!
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    Rachel Cohen Booth
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    Nov 16, 2020
    inbox: nearly 800 nurses in Pennsylvania are set to strike tomorrow over dangerous staffing levels
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    Rachel Cohen Booth
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    Mar 4, 2020
    youth voter turnout last night was disappointing. it would be cool if our leaders and political analysts treated it like a crisis to fix, and not something to be smug about
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    Sep 2, 2023
    this seems like not gratuity
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    Rachel Cohen Booth
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    Sep 14, 2022
    not everything is complicated and nuanced. the rail companies can and should give their workers sick days
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    Aug 30, 2022
    something I've been thinking a lot about with the student loan conversation is how a lot of the (college-educated) people angry about it keep acting like it was simply some voluntary decision of students, not something urged, recommended + promoted by the state in 1st grade