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Friday, December 13, 2019

Bankruptcy Promised Me a Fresh Start. Predatory Lenders Are Trying to Ruin It.
by Brandon A. Dorfman
One-third of bankruptcy filers are the same or worse-off than when they started.

Major League Baseball Wants to Crush 42 Minor League Teams — And Their Hometowns
by Marc Normandin
Players are pushing back on the false choice between better wages and more jobs.

The Economics of Caregiving for Working Mothers
by Sarah Jane Glynn and Katie Hamm
From our partner, the Center for American Progress: Although overwhelmingly employed in caregiving industries, women cannot afford child care.

Trump’s backdoor attack on Social Security disability
The Trump administration’s latest target for sabotage? The Social Security disability programs. Plus, Trump’s final rule taking food assistance away from 700,000 struggling workers.

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The Color Line. Cody Dalton Eyre was 20 when he was killed by police in Alaska. His family want you to remember his name. You know about the racial wealth gap, but you can't solve it without tackling the jobs gap, though even wealthy Black Americans experience discrimination in finance.

Oh, the Urbanity. San Francisco's troubled Salesforce Park is a reflection of San Francisco's larger woes, while this intergenerational history of Washington Heights explores another microcosm of a larger city. And in cities across the country, cyclists and pedestrians are dying and the media acts like it's their fault.

All I Want Is Your Money. Art forgery is alive and well — in fact, it's bigger than ever and incredibly popular in money laundering schemes. This church is taking the fight to the moneylenders and these women are tired of being lowballed.

"Nonessential"

Photographer Tom Kiefer worked as a janitor in a Customs and Border Patrol facility for 11 years. He started collecting items seized from detainees, producing a series of eerie photos of items people painstakingly carried across the desert. Baby shoes, toothbrushes, combs, and water bottles fill the frame in stark compositions that say as much about the people who took these objects as they do about the people who owned them.

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