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Friday, May 22, 2020
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Coronavirus Aid Prioritizes Big Banks. That’s a Problem for Rural America.
By Finn Dobkin
Billions of dollars in Paycheck Protection Program money bypassed community banks and small businesses that rely on them. <[link removed]>
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What It Tastes Like to Eat What You Want for the First Time
By Alaina Leary
I was food insecure for years. A new bill would make it so no one else has to be. <[link removed]>
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Vote by Mail Is One of Many Ways To Ensure the Disability Community Is Included in the Next Election
By Sabrina Gonzalez
From our partner, the Center for American Progress: In-person voting must be coupled with expansion of vote by mail to ensure disabled voters can participate in this historic election. <[link removed]>
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Off-Kilter: The Wolf at the Door
Rebecca talks to social insurance scholar Michael Graetz about his book “The Wolf at the Door” and how the U.S. might begin to address the rampant economic insecurity that long predated COVID — even in our current political climate. <[link removed]>
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What We’re Reading
In The Future We Will... We've built an entire economy on buying stuff and the accompanying debt, so what happens when people decide they don't want to buy anything anymore <[link removed]>? A spirit of frugality — washing plastic bags for reuse and making bread — has seized the nation, but it's old news for poor people <[link removed]>, who wonder whether people will keep doing it after the crisis. The future is also of interest to urbanists, but many of their proposals could set us up for repeats of inequalities <[link removed]>.
Kept Behind. There's a diabetes-related amputation epidemic in the Black South <[link removed]> and a doctor is fighting to save patients from preventable procedures. Undocumented restaurant workers in Los Angeles <[link removed]> speak out about their conditions under coronavirus. As a growing number of cities try and fail to serve people experiencing homelessness, a look at the capitalist systems <[link removed]> that made the streets so cruel.
Serving Time With COVID. Thousands of incarcerated people in California's overcrowded prisons have COVID-19 <[link removed]> and it could have been prevented. At a women's prison in New York, people are fighting for their lives <[link removed]>, sometimes by themselves in solitary. Mentally ill defendents are facing their own challenges, as both prison and mental health facilities are dangerous and courts won't just let them out to await trial <[link removed]>.
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The Unbearable Whiteness of Cooking
The food world is full of white influencers who say they're inspired by the culinary traditions of India, Mexico, China, and much, much more. Their appropriative dishes and empires are smash hits, but what about diversity and inclusion in the culinary world <[link removed]>? At a time when so many of us are cooking at home, some home cooks wish they saw more people who looked like them in YouTube, recipe blogs, and culinary magazines.
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