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Friday, November 22, 2019

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Don’t Count on Big Tech to Fix the Bay Area’s Housing Crisis
by s.e. smith
Philanthropy isn't a real affordable housing fix. <[link removed]>

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A Unique Philadelphia Law Guarantees 16,000 Domestic Workers Paid Time Off
by Bryce Covert
The bill of rights extends employment protections to the city’s nannies, housekeepers, and more. <[link removed]>

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Short-Changed: How Tipped Work Exacerbates the Pay Gap for Latinas
by Lily Roberts and Galen Hendricks
From our partner, the Center for American Progress: Tipped Latina workers earn 65 percent less than nontipped white, non-Hispanic men. <[link removed]>

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Off-Kilter: Hunger Games
Food insecurity among Philly’s student athletes; how philanthropy is benching women of color; Brenden Gallagher talks “
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What We’re Reading

Unhealthy Divides. In Texas, patients have to drive hours for care <[link removed]> thanks to dwindling rural hospitals. A growing number of states have turned to ER telemedicine <[link removed]> to meet provider shortages in remote regions. This dispatch from West Virginia's last abortion clinic <[link removed]> brings home the stakes of another rural health access battle.

The Kids Are Not Alright. ProPublica's chilling coverage of restraint and seclusion in Illinois schools <[link removed]> struck such a chord that the state is already pledging to act. Flint's children are struggling in school <[link removed]> in the aftermath of lead exposure. Racist legacies in Mississippi <[link removed]> result in huge numbers of Black kids charged as adults.

Delivering Discrimination. Delivery-centric life has reshaped the world, especially for those carrying foods the last mile <[link removed]>. The people who pack those products are often immigrants: Meet the Somali workers <[link removed]> taking on Amazon. Immigrants are also involved in the production of those goods, and food chain workers <[link removed]> endure gruesome conditions.

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Big Sky Dreams

Montana feels larger than life: Big skies, vast landscapes, huge buffalo, great national park. Photographer Stijn Hoekstra brings a cinematic flair <[link removed]> to these elegant, dreamy images of ghost towns and cowboys that feel like they should be scored by Bernard Herrmann.

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