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Friday, July 31, 2020

45,000 California Child Care Providers Just Won the Largest Union Election in Decades
By Bryce Covert
America has a child care crisis. These providers are hoping better wages and benefits will help fix it.

Unemployment Insurance and the CARES Act, Explained
By Justin Schweitzer
TalkPoverty's latest flash card set reviews changes to unemployment insurance made in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Kicking Folks Out While They’re Down
By Rejane Frederick and Jaboa Lake
From our partner, the Center for American Progress: The early lifting of pandemic restrictions strains emergency housing and homelessness efforts and will exacerbate evictions, foreclosures, and the decades-old housing and homelessness crises.

The Sahm Rule
Economist Claudia Sahm breaks down the unemployment insurance cliff threatening tens of millions of workers’ paychecks, the conservative mythology around “moral hazard,” why we’re facing an income crisis on top of a joblessness crisis, the toxic culture in economics, and more.

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More Work for Less Pay. The streets may be quiet, but the digital hustle economy is humming. Immigrants on H-2A visas have been deemed essential and they say they have been lured to America, where they are housed in sheds, threatened with deportation, and abused. And the manicure artists forced back to work are risking their lives for minimum wage.

Our House. In Philadelphia, single moms and their kids are taking over empty buildings. Homeless women like them often end up getting lost in the system that is supposed to be helping them. An experiment in Jackson, Mississippi, asks if universal basic income could lift people out of poverty.

Racism Is Everywhere. In Texas, Latinx residents are at the center of the COVID-19 crisis. In Philadelphia, Black residents fight pollution. In the Navajo nation, a horrendous COVID-19 spike shifted as tribal leaders flattened the curve.

Living With Industry

Appalachia is often represented as post-industrial, but as these images show, residents are living with industry all around them. Travels through West Virginia, Ohio, and beyond reveal active extractive industry alongside rusting hulks, and communities balancing past, present, and future.

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