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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What We’re Reading
Highways and Byways. A new study shows kids in walkable cities have better economic mobility, 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 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 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 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, effectively buying its own force, and it's also buying its own media with an expansion of its news section.
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 of some of the immigrants who call these gloomy settings home, accompanied by stunning images.
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