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Friday, July 26, 2019
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A New Trump Rule Could Threaten School Lunch for Thousands of Students
By s.e. smith
A proposed change to SNAP could kick 3.1 million people off food stamps — and 265,000 kids off of school lunch.
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You Think Airline Food Is Bad? The Conditions It’s Made In Are Worse.
By s.e. smith & Pat Garofalo
15,000 fed up airline catering workers for three of the biggest U.S. airlines just voted to authorize a strike. But they have to ask permission first.
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New Report: Redefining Rural America
By Olugbenga Ajilore & Zoe Willingham
From our partner, the Center for American Progress: Rural America still hasn't regained the employment levels it had before the 2008 recession — and if policy solutions keep treating it as a monolith, it never will.
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Off-Kilter: #ADA29
To mark the 29th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Rebecca sits down with Azza Altraifi, Valerie Novack, and Gabriela Rossner to tackle the big question facing disability justice: How do we achieve gains for disabled people within today’s ableist/capitalist/racist systems while still working to dismantle them?
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What We’re Reading
Corporate Control. Residents of an Alabama town are still sick years after Monsanto admitted to poisoning them <[link removed]>, and Amazon is taking deep cuts of every transaction <[link removed]> on its platform.
Regulation Rollbacks. The death industry <[link removed]> is getting away with murder, and how we became a country that argues for financial education rather than regulation <[link removed]>.
Cost of Care. Six families explain how they handle child care costs <[link removed]>, and a deep dive into how the Eastern Cherokee took control of their health care <[link removed]>.
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Fighting Maternal Mortality
African American babies in Minnesota are twice as likely to die in their first years as white babies. A birth center is trying to change that through culturally focused care <[link removed]> for women of color.
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