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Alana Semuels
Senior Economics Correspondent, TIME Magazine
Senior Economics Correspondent, TIME Magazine
Alana Semuels is a senior economics correspondent with TIME magazine. She has focused her career on economics and inequality at TIME, The Atlantic, and the Los Angeles Times. She is a four-time finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, the 2016 recipient of the New York Academy of Medicine's Urban Health Journalism reward, and has won numerous “best in business” awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.
A journalist struggled to find women willing to share their stories of reproductive coercion. Then a connection made through Facebook brought the reporting to life.
There are a number of reasons why the U.S. health care system is falling short when it comes to maternity care. All of them are about money.
Are doctors targeting low-income and Black women with types of birth control that are long-lasting and more difficult to discontinue?