Shaima Shamdeen wrote this story for The Affordable Housing Issue, the Summer 2018 issue of YES! Magazine. Shaima is a solutions reporting intern for YES! Follow her on Twitter and Instagram.
An internal document reveals that the Trump administration’s crackdown on supposed fraud in Social Security phone claims has identified just two questionable cases out of more than 110,000—prompting bipartisan outrage and warnings of a politically motivated attack on the program.
With hundreds of trucks with lifesaving aid waiting at the border, many of Gaza’s kitchens have closed, and Palestinians face mass starvation as rations run low.