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Friday, May 8, 2020
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Closed Mosques Mean Many Are Going Without Food During Ramadan
By Vanessa Taylor
1 in 3 Muslim Americans are poor. Coronavirus has closed the places they break daily fasts during the holy month. <[link removed]>
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What Happens When a Grocery Store Job Is the Only One You Can Get?
by Lexi McMenamin
Job options are slim for formerly incarcerated people. In a pandemic, that puts them at risk. <[link removed]>
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Reentry Reforms Are More Critical Than Ever Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic
By Sarah Figgatt
From our partner, the Center for American Progress: In addition to granting early release orders, policymakers must reform U.S. reentry systems to ensure that justice-involved people benefit from relief measures and can access vital social support programs during the COVID-19 outbreak. <[link removed]>
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Off-Kilter: COVID-19 Doesn’t Care What’s in Your Record. We Shouldn’t Either.
Rebecca talks to Quintin Williams, a leading criminal justice reform organizer, about the need to move past the U.S.’s obsession with the “violent/nonviolent” dichotomy as we protect people behind bars from the spread of COVID-19 — plus the “second chances” response we need to ensure the 1 in 3 Americans with criminal records aren’t left behind. <[link removed]>
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What We’re Reading
The Miseducation of COVID. Public universities offer opportunity and potential to low-income students, and the coronavirus is gutting them <[link removed]>. LGBQT students are among those counting on public education, but sending them home increased the chances they wouldn't be able to complete their educations <[link removed]>. Meanwhile, we had decades to address the steep digital divide <[link removed]> but didn't, and low-income students are paying the price.
One Nation, Under Inequality. Millions of Americans are facing economic catastrophe <[link removed]> because of the pandemic. American cities are being fundamentally reshaped <[link removed]> in a moment that could lead to greater equity, or more entrenchment of divides. Those divides are on sharp display with the significant racial gap <[link removed]> in coronavirus outcomes.
The Workers On the Bus. Exploitation of warehouse workers is making headlines and many of them are temp workers who get sent to dangerous job after dangerous job <[link removed]>. The challenges workers face have been exemplified by the restaurant industry, where immigrant-owned businesses are underwater <[link removed]>. Those workers also have to get to work somehow, and public transit drivers are dying on the job <[link removed]> to drive them there.
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Essential Workers Were Always Essential
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Essential workers have been making cities tick for centuries, they're just more starkly visible now, as this feature shows <[link removed]>. These workers are being spoken of as soldiers on the front lines, but they're not. This is not a war <[link removed]>, and they are ordinary human beings who signed up to do important jobs, not die doing them.
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