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Friday, December 6, 2019

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Giving Tuesday Isn’t the Antidote to Black Friday’s Consumerism
by Sarah Figgatt
The people who spend the most on Black Friday might surprise you.

Conservative Arguments For the Latest Food Stamp Cut Are Bogus. Here’s Why.
by s.e. smith
This is a plan cruelly designed to terminate nutrition benefits.

America Decides
by John Halpin, Karl Agne, and Nisha Jain
From our partner, the Center for American Progress: Voters support a range of pragmatic government actions to expand health care access and reduce costs; increase taxation on the wealthy; help low-income families with basic living necessities; and check corporate power.

Hunger Games
The rise of the “working homeless,” and why housing insecurity in the U.S. is far worse than official stats suggest, plus what the fight over means testing is really about.

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Bad Bosses. Four Googlers say they were fired for labor organizing, and they're filing an NLRB complaint. At cult suitcase startup (we didn't think we'd say those words either) Away, staffers describe a horrific workplace environment that included bullying on Slack and terminating employees who spoke up about diversity issues. This memoir of working for Alex Jones answers the question: "What kind of person could possibly work for someone so hateful?"

High Crimes. We know jailhouse informants are unreliable. Paul Skalnik is in a whole different league, and his testimony is about to kill a man. New Orleans in the 1980s was a world of white flight, high poverty, and cursory criminal investigations with big stakes. High interest loan companies in Utah are exploiting borrowers and using law enforcement to enforce debts.

Whose Recovery? A striking feature on blighted tsunami recovery in Indonesia shows what happens when foreign aid doesn't go as planned. But this issue cuts closer to home, as in Puerto Rico, where glaring inequalities have emerged when it comes to what gets rebuilt and where. In the Florida Keys, where flooding is a way of life, communities are pleading for help but the state is slow to move on climate resilience.

3 kids. 2 paychecks. No home.

California's fertile farmland feeds a large swath of the country, but the 91,000 underpaid farmworkers who live in "the valley" can't always put food on their own tables...when they have tables to call their own. This California Sunday feature follows a family who live in their car, struggling within a system that offers few resources to families experiencing homelessness. Their story has a happy ending, but it's an exception.

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