Jill Webb is a Brooklyn-based award-winning journalist and audio producer. She mainly covers mental health, the environment, and labor issues. Her work can be found at www.jillmwebb.com.
Construction workers, many of whom are immigrant and Hispanic workers, have higher rates of suicide than other industries
Mental health care providers described the psychological toll of Trump’s immigration crackdown on their patients: “Chronic uncertainty leads to emotional exhaustion and mistrust in the system”
Organizers aimed to connect the climate crisis, a major immigration driver, to attacks on immigrants by the Trump administration
States and cities are implementing cooling ordinances, such as requiring ACs in rental units, to combat indoor heat deaths
Eleven weeks of continuous climate organizing on Wall Street wrapped up in late August, highlighting the complicity of financiers of fossil fuel projects
As growing concerns of authoritarianism grip the U.S., residents of Long Island’s Nassau County are pushing back on a new government initiative deputizing armed civilians. In March, Republican Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman began recruiting armed citizens and training them to respond to natural disasters, unrest, and other
The wave of university encampments in solidarity with Palestine has led to serious repercussions for students across the U.S. Protesters have faced arrests, police violence, assault, doxxing, suspensions, expulsions, housing evictions, altered graduation ceremonies, and having their degrees withheld. Now, that tension is seeping into the politics of student
In late April, state police arrived on The Ohio State University’s campus and charged two student protesters with criminal trespassing. One was a member of Students for Justice in Palestine; the other was part of Ohio Youth for Climate Justice. The two groups came together for a rally demanding
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