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Friday, September 6, 2019

A Recession May Be Coming. Millennials Never Recovered from the Last One.
by Kathryn Styer
Women of color have been set back especially far by economic conditions outside their control.

Low-Income Students Are Returning to Dangerously Hot Schools
by s.e. smith
And they’re not getting fixed anytime soon.

The Nondiscrimination Protections of Millions of Workers Are Under Threat
by Frank J. Bewkes and Caitlin Rooney
From our partner, the Center for American Progress: A proposed rule would make millions of U.S. workers vulnerable to discrimination for not sharing their employers’ religious beliefs.

Best of: Cornell Brooks, Patrick Cokley, Zahra Noorbaksh
Two conversations from the Off-Kilter archives: Cornell Brooks & Patrick Cokley on race in the Trump era and Zahra Noorbaksh on breaking through bigotry with comedy.

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Deadly Deliveries. Two investigations, one from Buzzfeed and one from the New York Times and ProPublica, look at how Amazon's push for more and faster deliveries has led to death and destruction for which the company evades accountability.

College Readings. How the cost of higher education is reshaping the middle class; how Ivy League schools use leaves of absence to punish students with mental illnesses; and the case for why black athletes should leave white colleges.

Got Milk? Take a deep dive into a lawsuit alleging that an Oregon dairy company's claims regarding small farms and animal welfare don't comport with reality.

"Plant Seeds"

Meet the women who, after taking part in the Dakota Access oil pipeline protests at Standing Rock, are focusing on building sovereign, sustainable economies: “I tell people that our first act of sovereignty is planting food,” [LaDonna Brave Bull] Allard said. “Our first act is taking care of self. So no matter what we do, if we’re not taking care of self, we’ve already failed.”

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