H. Claire Brown

Senior staff writer

claire.brown@thecounter.org

@hclaire_brown

H. Claire Brown is a senior staff writer for The Counter. Her work has also appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, and The Intercept and has won awards from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing, the New York Press Club, the Newswomen's Club of New York, and others. A North Carolina native, she now lives in Brooklyn.

claire.brown@thecounter.org

@hclaire_brown
People dine at a restaurant at Hudson Yards on February 12, 2021 in New York City as restaurants can reopen for indoor dining at 25 percent capacity. - Indoor dining resumes in New York City on Friday, with restaurants reopening to 25 percent capacity due to the coronavirus pandemic. May 2021
Can a streamlined set of safety guidelines ease the stress of indoor dining?
Health
by H. Claire Brown
05.04.2021
Health
Schirmer Farms (Batesville) Operations Manager Brandon Schirmer leaves the harvester parked and ready to start the first sesame harvest of thiw 270-acre circular pivot irrigated sesame field at his mother and father's 1,014-acre multi-crop farm in Batesville, TX, on October 29, 2020.
The Senate appears poised to pass a bipartisan bill to help farmers sell carbon credits. Not everyone is happy.
Politics
by H. Claire Brown
04.27.2021
Politics
Large black land farm in Eastern Arkansas with plowed field laying fallow. Seed and grain silos in background with sheds and farm equipment.
The Biden administration will pay farmers more money not to farm
Environment
by H. Claire Brown
04.22.2021
Environment
Contents of a USDA Farmers to Families food box includes apples meatballs, hotdogs, milk and other fresh items that need to be consumed in a timely manner in Athens, Ohio on December 19, 2020. - Thousands of food boxes were distributed to families from all over rural Appalachia who were able to drive to the fairgrounds, but most only were able to leave with one box of food for the week of Christmas. April 2021
Biden administration to end USDA food box program
Politics
by H. Claire Brown
04.14.2021
Politics
A union supporter stands before sunrise outside the Amazon.com, Inc. BHM1 fulfillment center on March 29, 2021 in Bessemer, Alabama. April 2021
Amazon appears to defeat unionization vote in Alabama
Business
by H. Claire Brown
04.09.2021
Business
2021/02/20: Participants seen holding signs and marching on a picket line at the protest. Members of the Workers Assembly Against Racism gathered across from Jeff Bezos-owned Whole Foods Market in Union Square South for a nation-wide solidarity event with the unionizing Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama. March 2021
How will next week’s hotly contested Amazon union vote in Alabama actually work?
Politics
by H. Claire Brown
03.23.2021
Politics
Stack of 100 dollar bills with illustrative coronavirus stimulus payment check to show the Covid-19 relief stimulus payment to Americans. March 2020
How does the $1.9 trillion stimulus package impact food and farming?
Politics
by H. Claire Brown
03.09.2021
Politics
Volunteer stacks USDA Farmers to Families Food Boxes to the edge of a semi truck for distribution at the Athens County Fairgrounds in Athens, Ohio on December 19, 2020.
An Oklahoma man made people attend a “ghost story” (read: sermon) before getting USDA food boxes. Then he let them take up to 30 at a time.
Business
by Jessica Fu + H. Claire Brown
03.04.2021
Business
Tom Vilsack speaks on December 11, 2020, after being nominated to be Agriculture Secretary by US President-elect Joe Biden, in Wilmington, Delaware.
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack is confirmed (again)
Politics
by H. Claire Brown
02.23.2021
Politics