Jonathan Cohn is the winner of the 2014 Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism for “The Hell of American Daycare,” a feature story in The New Republic that uncovered a national pattern of unregulated, dysfunctional, and dangerous daycares. Cohn tells the story of a young mother from Houston who lost her 1-year-old daughter in a fire at an unlicensed facility. Like many working poor parents, the woman was forced to send her child to a substandard daycare because she couldn’t afford anything else.  

Cohn is a senior editor at The New Republic and the author of Sick: The Untold Story of America’s Health Care Crisis. He shared the 2010 Hillman Prize for Blog Journalism for his coverage of health care reform. 

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