How a scandal-plagued health care giant profits off a failing child welfare system.
Julia Lurie
Julia Lurie is a senior reporter at Mother Jones who writes about child welfare, criminal justice and addiction. She is a two-time finalist for the Livingston Award for young journalists and was a 2022 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post and Grist. You can reach her at jlurie@motherjones.com.
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How much water does it take to grow an almond?
Mother Jones California, supplier of nearly half of all U.S. fruits, veggies and nuts, is on track to experience the driest year in the past half-millennium. Farms use about 80 percent of the state’s “developed water,” or water that’s moved from its natural source to other areas via pipes and aqueducts. As the maps above show, […]