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The Latest Stimulus Bill Had Tax Breaks for Race Horses, But Left Stable
Workers Without Help
By Amir Khafagy
Immigrant workers contracted COVID-19 working in tight quarters for low pay
while race horse owners got $500,000 in tax breaks.
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An Ambitious Urban Farming Program Aims to Tackle Hunger. Residents Aren’t Sure
They Buy In.
By Elisabeth Sherman
Jersey City is pairing free produce with offers of "health education," which
residents fear could violate their privacy — or simply be condescending.
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Derrick Fudge Died In a Mass Shooting. His Family Can’t Get Help Because of a Decade-Old Drug Charge.
By Stephen Starr
Seven states block crime victims from receiving financial support if they have felony records.
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When Will the Pandemic End?
Rebecca sits down with Be A Hero’s Matthew Cortland for a look at the challenges
with the vaccine rollout so far, and what it would take to get to the rates we
need in the U.S. and globally to bring the COVID-19 pandemic to an end.
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What We’re Reading
Eat it.
Timmy Chan's is a Houston legend, and the history of this beloved local Chinese American chain
[[link removed]] runs deep through the city's rap scene and car culture. In Maine, a beloved soup kitchen
[[link removed]] is attempting to pivot midst-pandemic. Meanwhile, ghost kitchens
[[link removed]] are gutting the American restaurant industry, and the people who work in it.

COVID variations.
In California, officials are scrambling to remedy inequalities in vaccine distribution
[[link removed]] . Young people are drowning in debt
[[link removed]] from student loans, credit cards, and payday loans as they try to make do in
the pandemic. And plummeting profits alongside COVID-19 restrictions for
airlines have made the future for flight attendants
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America's dirty divide.
A blockbuster series from The Guardian tackles environmental racism
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residents are swimming in sewage
[[link removed]] . This reporting project will continue throughout 2021, exploring a range of
environmental equity issues.
Celebrating Black America with Emerald Arguelles [[link removed]]
The work of Emerald Arguelles [[link removed]] , from elegantly-framed images in a salon to saturated portraits of men in
durags, is a chronicle and appreciation of the Black community. Her images have
an intimate luminosity that invites the eye to linger on small details like the
play of light on fingernails and the texture of textiles in the background,
coming together to tell a larger story.

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