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Friday, August 2, 2019

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.

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.

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.

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

Out of Print. Communities such as Youngstown, Ohio, and Warroad, Minnesota, 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.

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

School's Out

Meet the teens in a Pennsylvania town who have summer jobs and find out why they need or want to work.

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