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Friday, August 2, 2019

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A Record-Breaking Tornado Season Is Pummeling Mobile Home Residents
by Bobbi Dempsey
Tornadoes are frequent in the South. So are mobile and manufactured homes. The combination is lethal.

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A Perfect Storm
by Guillermo Ortiz, Heidi Schultheis, Valerie Novack & Aleah Holt
From our partner, the Center for American Progress: Extreme weather events fueled by climate change are exacerbating the intertwined crises of affordable housing and homelessness.

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Calling 911 or Not Mowing the Lawn Can Cost Disabled People Their Homes
by ALISHA JARWALA & SEJAL SINGH
In the estimated 2,000 municipalities with chronic nuisance ordinances, people can be evicted for something as small as calling 911 twice in three months.

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Off-Kilter:Bye-bye, Categorical Eligibility?
Trump’s latest regulatory attack on food assistance, explained, plus a look at a new report on redefining rural America.

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What We’re Reading

We Started the Fire. How local politics and misguided policy caused the wildfires in Paradise, California, to get so bad <[link removed]>, and why hundreds of other communities are just as vulnerable <[link removed]>.

Out of Print. Communities such as Youngstown, Ohio <[link removed]>, and Warroad, Minnesota <[link removed]>, are losing their local papers, while others are seeing leaders of industries whose corruption is often exposed on the front page take over the newsroom itself <[link removed]>.

Another Day, Another Loophole. Parents in Illinois are giving up custody of their college-age children in order to exploit a legal loophole <[link removed]> that qualifies the kids for financial aid. Lawmakers are less than pleased <[link removed]>.

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School's Out

Meet the teens in a Pennsylvania town who have summer jobs and find out why they need or want to work <[link removed]>.

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