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Friday, August 14, 2020

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 — 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 striking mixed-media piece 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. Plus, county jails — where many people have not yet been charged of a crime — have a suicide problem that they have not yet reckoned with.

Food In Our Future. Struggling dairy farms in Wisconsin are gaining political importance 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.

Weaving Stories

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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