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Friday, September 27, 2019

Eugene Scalia Ruled It’s Ok to Make Disabled Workers Soil Themselves on the Job
by Taryn Williams
It was a big news week, so you might have missed the confirmation of the new Secretary of Labor.

The Challenge of Running the Office of Federal Student Aid ‘More Like a Business’
by Ben Miller and Jason Delisle
From our partner, the Center for American Progress: Letting a government office operate like a private company sounds great in theory but has lots of trade-offs and complications in practice.

American Ghent
by David Madland and Malkie Wall
From our partner, the Center for American Progress: Expanding on existing Ghent-like programs in the United States would strengthen unions and improve government services.

#SmartOnCrime
Conversations with two criminal justice reform leaders whose work stems from their own experiences behind bars: Josh Hoe and Quintin Williams.

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Always Undercutting Black Wealth. One-third of Southern Black land is actually heirs' property, caught up in a legal web that makes it hard to prove ownerswhip. Plus, the lives of Black families who thought they found middle-class security with federal jobs are being upended.

The Rent Is Too Dang High. Immigrant tenants are fighting back against discriminatory landlords and Milwaukee developers are committed to combating decades of segregation. Meanwhile, tax breaks meant to help low-income areas primarily benefit developers.

Dirty Money. The art world benefits from philanthropy, but a lot of that money is tainted, and some activists are pushing back on "business as usual." Sandeep Vaheesan at The American Prospect makes a case for using existing federal powers to put monopolies like the ones using art for public relations in check.

Daily Life In the Great Depression

Thanks to federal arts grants, we have a vivid collection of images from the Great Depression and New Deal era, like these three young women taking a break backstage at the Vermont State Fair in 1941. You can find find more of these photos of everyday life in the '30s and '40s from the Library of Congress, which kindly digitized and published them on Flickr for all to enjoy.

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