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Friday, October 25, 2019
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Dangerous Jobs. Harassment. Long Hours. Welcome to Court-Ordered Community Service.
by s.e. smith
‘Poverty penalties’ and racial disparities in court-ordered community service drive inequality.
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State Laws Can Punish Parents Living in Abusive Households
by Elizabeth Brico
Witnessing domestic violence can become grounds for taking a child from their family under failure to protect laws.
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Investing in Infant and Toddler Child Care to Strengthen Working Families
by Rasheed Malik
From our partner, the Center for American Progress: Child care is expensive and scarce for children under age 3, when the benefits from quality child care are highest.
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Off-Kilter: TurboTax’s Trickery, Part II
Inside TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing their taxes for free, with ProPublica reporter Justin Elliott. Plus: Gbenga Ajilore on why we’re not prepared for the next recession.
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What We’re Reading
Indigenous Landings. The 50th anniversary of the occupation of Alcatraz is approaching, and a group of Indigenous people from across North America took a canoe journey around the island <[link removed]> to reflect. In Alaska, the village of Newtok is sinking into melting permafrost <[link removed]>, forcing residents to evacuate before rising water swallows their homes. On Navajo land, an investigation reveals a company that won a cleanup contract <[link removed]> for abandoned uranium mines has a questionable past.
Highways and Byways. A new study shows kids in walkable cities have better economic mobility <[link removed]>, even after controlling for the factors that make cities more walkable, like wealthier populations. And as San Diego explores transit development, an argument for making it harder to drive <[link removed]> to increase transit adoption. Speaking of driving, Syracuse is tearing down a section of elevated highway and residents see it as an opportunity for reparations <[link removed]> for the Black community destroyed to make room for it.
Vampire Capitalism. Venture capital is responsible for the rise of WeWork, and its refusal to die quietly, but the rapid expansion <[link removed]> of the tech industry can't continue forever. Facebook is certainly banking on it, though, as it spends millions of dollars on the 'Facebook unit' of the Menlo Park police <[link removed]>, effectively buying its own force, and it's also buying its own media with an expansion of its news section <[link removed]>.
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The Sunless World
Thousands of single-family homes across Queens have illegally converted their basements into warrens of dangerous apartments, reminiscent of turn of the last century tenements. These are the stories <[link removed]> of some of the immigrants who call these gloomy settings home, accompanied by stunning images.
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