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Friday, August 14, 2020
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19 Volunteers Sharing an iPhone Are Trying to Support Incarcerated People Through COVID-19
by Celeste Hamilton Dennis
Prison officials are confusing solitary with safety, leaving incarcerated people in Oregon desperate for connection.
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Florida Police Are Still Clearing Homeless Camps Despite CDC Guidance
by Justin Garcia
Encampments provide community, stability, and access to services that are crucial during a pandemic.
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Expanding the Supply of Affordable Housing for Low-Wage Workers
by Michela Zonta
From our partner, the Center for American Progress: Lower-wage workers are more likely to rent their homes, and they‘re hardest hit by job losses during the pandemic.
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The Pandemic Is Forcing Millennial Mothers Out of the Workforce
by Rasheed Malik and Taryn Morrissey
From our partner, the Center for American Progress: Millennial mothers are three times more likely than fathers to report being unable to work due to school or child care closures — a big problem since 80 percent of single-parent families are headed by women.
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What We’re Reading
Restaurant Weak. Unemployment aid can be limited for workers who are part time or earn very low wages, which means some restaurant workers <[link removed]> — who are in one of the industries hardest-hit by the pandemic — are being left behind. They‘re among the group of people profiled in this black and white multimedia piece <[link removed]> on the people who are out of work.
The Cost of Injustice. A study shows that Black Americans are more likely to be charged with traffic infractions, and more likely to be jailed when they can‘t pay the fines <[link removed]>. Plus, county jails — where many people have not yet been charged of a crime — have a suicide problem <[link removed]> that they have not yet reckoned with.
Food In Our Future. Struggling dairy farms in Wisconsin are gaining political importance <[link removed]> as they continue to shut down at record rates, and meat processing plants have decided that their problem isn‘t how they treat their workers — it‘s that they have workers at all. <[link removed]>
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Weaving Stories
Quilt with hand stitched emblems: <[link removed]>
Monique Crabb‘s quilting and textile art is focused on loss, and reckoning with the ways that systems failed the people she loves.
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