Correspondent
Allison Winter is a Washington D.C. correspondent for States Newsroom, a network of state-based nonprofit news outlets that includes Maryland Matters.
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated racial inequities in education, a disparity that Congress needs to help rectify, the former education chief under President Obama…
The Trump administration is suspending key environmental reviews during the pandemic, which critics warn could further harm poor and minority neighborhoods around the country….
The federal government needs to assist states with a national strategy for distribution of COVID-19 tests and medical equipment or risk a second surge…
Colleges and universities across the country are getting emergency federal aid for COVID-19, but some of the most vulnerable students won’t be eligible…
As the United States reels from COVID-19, scientists and environmentalists say beefing up conservation efforts could help protect humanity from future pandemics. Lawmakers and…
Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh (D) and 20 other attorneys general from across the country are pressing the Trump administration to freeze pending…
Before Twitter, people used little paper notes to tell members of Congress what they thought about impeachment. Former U.S. Rep. Constance A. Morella, a…
Lawmakers have reached a landmark agreement on paid parental leave for federal workers that could institute paid time off for civilian employees for the…
A long-simmering feud between U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and congressional Democrats over student loan forgiveness is heating up as hundreds of thousands of…
A Senate panel voted today to boost funding for federal Chesapeake Bay programs next year – a reversal from the Trump administration’s effort to…