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Friday, November 22, 2019

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.

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.

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.

Hunger Games
Food insecurity among Philly’s student athletes; how philanthropy is benching women of color; Brenden Gallagher talks “You Can’t Eat Your Dreams. Hollywood Expects Assistants to Do Just That.”

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Unhealthy Divides. In Texas, patients have to drive hours for care thanks to dwindling rural hospitals. A growing number of states have turned to ER telemedicine to meet provider shortages in remote regions. This dispatch from West Virginia's last abortion clinic 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 struck such a chord that the state is already pledging to act. Flint's children are struggling in school in the aftermath of lead exposure. Racist legacies in Mississippi 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. The people who pack those products are often immigrants: Meet the Somali workers taking on Amazon. Immigrants are also involved in the production of those goods, and food chain workers endure gruesome conditions.

Big Sky Dreams

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

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