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.
A Look At Lives Transformed By the Student Debt Crisis
Four young people share their stories.
Private Equity Companies Are Taking Over the World
“What private equity does looks a lot like looting.”
Their Parents Were Locked Up for Years for Selling Weed
One $20 transaction put a father in prison for more than a decade.
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].”
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.”
Teachers Can’t Live on What They’re Earning
“I really think you have to experience it to know.”
All the Ways That Workers Won in the 2022 Midterms
Several pro-labor ballot initiatives and amendments passed.
Ilhan Omar’s Staff Tells Us Why They're Unionizing
They want to make things “better for all staffers across the board.”
What It’s Like to Be a Teen Caring for Disabled Relatives
"You could never really leave my grandma and my aunt alone.”
6 Young People on How Guaranteed Income Programs Changed Their Lives
“It gave me this feeling, like we’re gonna be okay.”
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.
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!”
Why People Are Skeptical of Companies Covering Abortion Travel
The vast majority of workers will be left out.
The Many Unseen Financial Costs of DACA
This June marks the 10-year anniversary of the DACA program.
It’s Wild That Members of Congress Are Allowed to Trade Stocks
Hello, conflicts of interest.
These Hawaiian Teens Are Suing the State Over Pollution
Hawai'i’s landscape is already seeing the impacts of the climate crisis.
9 Non-Graduates on Dealing with Student Loan Debt
“It's okay that we don't have degrees. We are still worthy."
So Many People With Student Debt Never Graduated College
“Why am I in so much debt for nothing?”
Economic Disobedience: What Is It and How Does It Work?
From student debt strikes to withholding rent.