Jacqui Germain
Jacqui Germain was the 2022 Economic Security Project senior fellow at Teen Vogue. Jacqui is a St. Louis-based journalist, trained organizer and poet, whose work has appeared in outlets including The Nation, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Elle, The New Inquiry and Vice.
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Politics
What to Know About the Trump Admin’s New Student Loan Collection Policy
If you haven’t been paying your federal student loans, read this.
Politics
Cori Bush Fought for St. Louis. Now She’s in the Fight of Her Career.
“Fighting for something is how we lead,” the congresswoman says.
Politics
A Look At Lives Transformed By the Student Debt Crisis
Four young people share their stories.
Politics
Private Equity Companies Are Taking Over the World
“What private equity does looks a lot like looting.”
Justice
Their Parents Were Locked Up for Years for Selling Weed
One $20 transaction put a father in prison for more than a decade.
Cover Stars
Hollywood Failed Native People. Amber Midthunder Is Fighting Back.
“Especially as an Indigenous woman,” says Midthunder, “there's so much sexualizing and there's so much turning into an item or turning into a figure or turning into a [caricature].”
Politics
Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Ruled Unlawful
The White House has already filed an appeal, says it “will never stop fighting for hardworking Americans.”
Politics
Teachers Can’t Live on What They’re Earning
“I really think you have to experience it to know.”
Politics
All the Ways That Workers Won in the 2022 Midterms
Several pro-labor ballot initiatives and amendments passed.
Government
Ilhan Omar’s Staff Tells Us Why They're Unionizing
They want to make things “better for all staffers across the board.”
Justice
What It’s Like to Be a Teen Caring for Disabled Relatives
"You could never really leave my grandma and my aunt alone.”
Government
6 Young People on How Guaranteed Income Programs Changed Their Lives
“It gave me this feeling, like we’re gonna be okay.”
Politics
Biden Announces the Details of His Student Loan Forgiveness Plan
The administration will forgive up to $10,000 in undergraduate federal student loan debt per borrower.
Government
The Best Reactions to Biden Canceling Some Student Debt
“Please Joe. we ain’t made a payment in 3 years. i don’t even have my login anymore!”
Government
Why People Are Skeptical of Companies Covering Abortion Travel
The vast majority of workers will be left out.
Immigration
The Many Unseen Financial Costs of DACA
This June marks the 10-year anniversary of the DACA program.
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Government
It’s Wild That Members of Congress Are Allowed to Trade Stocks
Hello, conflicts of interest.
Politics
These Hawaiian Teens Are Suing the State Over Pollution
Hawai'i’s landscape is already seeing the impacts of the climate crisis.
Politics
9 Non-Graduates on Dealing with Student Loan Debt
“It's okay that we don't have degrees. We are still worthy."
Government
So Many People With Student Debt Never Graduated College
“Why am I in so much debt for nothing?”