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Friday, August 30, 2019
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Impossible Burgers Aren’t Going to Change the Industry Until Everyone Can Afford Them
by Gbenga Ajilore
Impossible Burgers are more expensive than beef. They don’t have to be.
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Andrew Lucks Gets to Walk Away. Not All Athletes Can.
by Rory Taylor
What’s truly unusual about Luck isn’t the choice he made — it’s the fact that he had the freedom to make it.
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Racism and Sexism Combine To Shortchange Working Black Women
by Jocelyn Frye
From our partner, the Center for American Progress: Closing the pay divide requires a deeper understanding of the different factors driving the wage gap for Black women.
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Off-Kilter: Best of: Peter Edelman and Carol Anderson
Two conversations from the Off-Kilter archives: Peter Edelman on “Not a Crime to Be Poor” and Carol Anderson on “White Rage.”
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What We’re Reading
On the Rise. The Great Lakes are rising, and taking beaches and roads <[link removed]> with them, while residents want compensation <[link removed]> for lost homes — and loved ones — after the Army Corps of Engineers flooded a Houston neighborhood during Hurricane Harvey.
Filthy Reckoning. North Carolina’s hog waste pollution has been a source of complaints for decades, but it took a mighty storm and a whole lot of pressure <[link removed]> for the state to act. Meanwhile, more than 100 <[link removed]> coal ash pits and other toxic sites lie within a climate change-induced floodplain.
Summer School Scam. Major colleges are increasingly offering "pre-college" programs to high schoolers that cost thousands of dollars. But families going into debt so their kids can attend aren't getting <[link removed]> what they thought they paid for.
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Everybody Eats
Woman cooking in professional kitchen: <[link removed]>
The owners of Drexell & Honeybee's have a policy at their restaurant in Brewton, Alabama: Pay what you can. <[link removed]>
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