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Friday, July 5, 2019

The Road to Abortion Is Paved With Bad Bus Routes
by Robin Marty
Twenty percent of low-income people don’t have a car, and states with few abortion clinics don’t have usable mass transit.

A Tax Break Took New Jersey’s Poorest City From Zero Grocery Stores To… Zero Grocery Stores
by Pat Garofalo
Turns out taxes aren’t the thing making food inaccessible.

States Are Going Around Trump to Get More Workers Overtime Pay
by Bryce Covert
In Washington State alone, 400,000 workers could get a pay bump under new overtime rules.

#CleanSlate Revisited
The Clean Slate law went into effect last week in Pennsylvania, clearing hundreds of thousands of criminal records. In honor of the new law, the Off-Kilter team revisited conversations with criminal justice reform leaders.

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Gentrification Gone Wild. How natural disasters spurred gentrification, first in New Orleans and again in Paradise, and a timeline of graffiti’s transition from a sign of blight to sought-after street art.

The Kids Are Alright. The story of a recent high school grad who joined the first highly-trained paramedic force in the country in the 1960s and 1970s — which just so happened to be staffed entirely by black men who had been considered “unemployable” — and the high school senior who exposed his school’s use of prison labor this spring.

Money, That's What I Want. The multilevel marketing companies that sell women a dream and then take their cash, and the future of strip clubs in a world where there’s no cash at all.

Blowin' in the Wind

Tumbleweeds have hassled residents of the Great Plains and Southwest for 150 years, but climate change is turning them from solitary nomads into flocks that can bury roads, houses, and entire communities. This photoessay shows just how dramatically tumbleweeds can shape their surroundings.

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