Month: December 2018
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Who’s More Likely to Be Audited: A Person Making $20,000 — or $400,000?
How a benefit for the working poor was turned against them. Paul Kiel and Jesse Eisinger report.
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How Natural Birth Became Inaccessible to the Poor
As Mexico’s middle and upper classes make a fad of natural birth, traditional midwives are being threatened legally for providing the same services to the poor. Rosalynn A. Vega reports.
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Sunday Comics
I don’t know where he lives; or if he knows to sail; or if little schemes like this one ever cross his trail. I don’t believe he’s reading Sunday Comics, you know…So I shudder in my lampshade.
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Why Co-ops and Community Farms Can’t Close the Racial Wealth Gap
African American communities have difficulty circulating wealth when there is no wealth to circulate. Zenobia Jeffries Warfield writes.
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HUD Took Over a Town’s Housing Authority 22 Years Ago. Now the Authority’s Broke and Residents Are Being Pushed Out.
Despite the insistence of Ben Carson that Metropolitan St. Louis is “mission accomplished,” its HUD-controlled housing authority is bankrupt and things are getting worse. Molly Parker reports.
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Young Evangelicals Fighting for Climate Action
For students at this top evangelical college, loving God means protecting creation —including dealing with climate change. Meera Subramanian writes.
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The Beauty Contest: How Cities are Shaped by What We Think Others Think, Part 2
Part 2 of Erica Barnett and Ben Klemens’ study of gentrification as a beauty contest.
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The Beauty Contest: How Cities are Shaped by What We Think Others Think, Part 1
Cities can be shaped profoundly by what we think others think. An application of game theory to gentrification in Seattle by Erica Barnett and Ben Klemens.
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Sunday Comics
Train my brain to work the way you want me to. Don’t question authority, see, don’t read Sunday Comics that disagree with you. You are strapped with a double standard clamp, in a battle you won’t win; and when it’s over, we’re gonna dance your…
