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Friday, January 31, 2020

Laws Aren’t The Only Barrier To Abortion Access. So Is Cost.
by Paige Alexandria
Our right to choose means little if we can’t access it.

Minimum Wage Increases Are Great. But Only If Workers Actually Get Them.
by Elena Botella
Employers steal $15 billion every year from employees by paying below minimum wage.

3 Ways HUD Is Using Regulatory Attacks to Dismantle Fair Housing Protections
by Areeba Haider
From our partner, the Center for American Progress: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has proposed multiple rules that target housing access for marginalized communities and weaken protections against discrimination.

FAMILY Act
CAP’s Shilpa Phadke on the push for nationwide paid leave, as the House takes up its first-ever hearing on the FAMILY Act, and a deep-dive with EPI’s Ben Zipperer on why expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit should go hand-in-hand with raising the minimum wage.

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Imagined Places. The New York of film and television has always been a creative variation on reality, but now, it's a lesson in gentrification. One rich man is trying to keep Marfa, Texas, going, and residents aren't so convinced. Phoenix is the least-sustainable city in the U.S. It may be running out of water, and viability.

Extreme Sports. Are you watching Cheer on Netflix? This cheer team has to cross a border to get to practice. Meanwhile, incarcerated sports fans gamble with their money and their sentences when they participate in sports betting, as a small way of keeping up with the outside world. And this cyclist is alive because of a donor heart, so he took it on a 1,426-mile tour to say thanks.

Screened. Noticed more class war on screen? It's not a coincidence, but it was surprisingly poorly represented in the 2020 Oscar nominations. Wendy Ortiz writes in this overview of race in publishing about who gets to tell stories, and how.

"Nothing Has Changed"

two black girls walking. the photo has a vintage feel.

At first glance, many of the images in Larry Niehues' Nothing Has Changed have a familiar vintage feel and tone. But look again. These are modern photographs looking at present-day America, reflecting a meandering tour through a nostalgic country with a hidden edge.

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