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Friday, August 30, 2019

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.

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.

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.

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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On the Rise. The Great Lakes are rising, and taking beaches and roads with them, while residents want compensation 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 for the state to act. Meanwhile, more than 100 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 what they thought they paid for.

Everybody Eats

The owners of Drexell & Honeybee's have a policy at their restaurant in Brewton, Alabama: Pay what you can.

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