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Friday, August 9, 2019

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I Worked at Capital One. Hacks Like This Are Most Dangerous for Low-Income People.
by Elena Botella
Low-income customers are least able to recover from financial disasters created by database breaches.

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Back-To-School Tax Holidays Are A Scam
by Pat Garofalo
Instead of forgiving sales tax, fund schools.

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From our partner, the Center for American Progress: 3 Ways to Improve Outcomes for African Americans in the Rural South
by Olugbenga Ajilore
When politicians talk about rural America, they seem to only focus on white residents.

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Off-Kilter: August Conversations
Alex Lawson on why he co-founded We Act Radio, Off-Kilter’s anchor station; how progressives shifted the Overton Window on Social Security expansion; and why he likes to dress as a corporate pirate.

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What We’re Reading

Hostile Workplaces. Workers at Amazon warehouses engage in small acts of resistance <[link removed]> as they're constantly surveilled and monitored, one woman is fighting back against rampant sexism <[link removed]> in the oil industry, and the Trump administration is making chemical facilities far more dangerous. <[link removed]>

Charm City Forever. How a century of explicitly racist policies <[link removed]> hurt Baltimore and the people who live there.

Farmed Out. Meet a family of farmers in Minnesota struggling to stay afloat amid the administration's trade war <[link removed]>.

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Submerged

These photos documents the fact that 550,000 acres of rural Mississippi were flooded for months <[link removed]>, and residents there feel no one cares.

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