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Friday, September 20, 2019

Increasing Surveillance of Mentally Ill People Won’t Stop Mass Shootings
by Azza Altiraifi
The national fixation on mental illness is a pretext for entrenching and expanding oppression.

Debt Collecting Promises High Pay. All It Costs Is Your Soul.
by Elena Botella
75 to 100 percent of debt collectors leave within one year.

Trump’s Labor Secretary Nominee Delights in Destroying Rights for Disabled Workers
by Rebecca Cokley
From our partner, the Center for American Progress: The nomination of Eugene Scalia could roll back decades of progress for workers with disabilities.

The Harvest of American Racism
Inside Tennessee’s plan to block-grant Medicaid; why market solutions fail to uplift distressed communities; and a look at the Son of Scalia, Trump’s latest nominee for Labor Secretary.

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It's not too late. As people take to the streets for the Climate Strike, a reminder that climate change will change the landscape of global conflict. In Arizona, farmers are struggling to adapt to a different changing landscape. Meanwhile, some unlikely suspects are cashing in on the climate crisis.

Losing Ground. In Los Angeles, the squeezing out of the Black middle class has created a huge disparity: Black residents are nine percent of LA's residents and 40 percent of people experiencing homelessness. Hundreds of miles up the coast, Pomo people forage for food even when it breaks state law.

Fighting Fires. When a dozer operator died fighting a fire, it took a crew of 93, including incarcerated people, to retrieve his body. But while some Californians are fighting fires, others are setting them in the same of conservation.

Welcome to the Block

Summer is leaving us but before it does, a team of New York Times photographers fanned out across the city to photograph 65 block parties that capture the spirit of the diverse city and its friendly neighborhoods.

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