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Friday, January 17, 2020

Black West Baltimore Is Still Waiting for Equity
by Cristina Maza
Baltimore’s white neighborhoods receive two to four times the investment of Black ones.

The Criminal Justice System Is Too Big. It’s Time To Downsize.
by Marlon Peterson
We spend $270 billion annually on the criminal justice system. It doesn’t make us safer.

Why All Workers Should Be Able To Deduct Union Dues
by Alexandra Thornton
From our partner, the Center for American Progress: In order to increase tax fairness for workers, the federal government should immediately restore the tax deduction for union dues.

We Are Indivisible
Ed Chung on the backlash against bail reform in New York state; Ezra Levin on the Indivisible movement three years on, his new book with Leah Greenberg, and the path to defeating Trump and saving democracy in 2020 and beyond.

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Fighting Back, Getting Out. How come women under attack keep getting charged with murder for fighting back? This very disturbing and graphic read chronicles a culture of sexual assault in the Amish community. Dominionist approaches to personal finance can leave women fleeing evangelical communities so financially disadvantaged that they have trouble building independence.

Don't Drink The Water. America's largest coal plant is in Georgia and the surrounding community is getting sick. In Montana, where mining is king, an abandoned open pit mine is filled with nothing but trouble. Gulf Coast organizers are fighting the "Jim Crow of climate change" as they struggle to prepare for disaster in underresourced communities.

It's Technical. Talk about a gun show loophole. People living in the Silicon Valley economy are seeing it from the inside and it's not great if you're not living at the top of a tech company, like, say, these Mormon entrepreneurs.

They Like That Soft Bread

This ode to a regional delicacy from writer and photographer Chelsey Mae Johnson delves into the story of the hot ham and cheese. It's lightly steamed, you'll find it around Knoxville, locals know it as a hoagie, and its origins are mysterious. But this is not just the story of a sandwich, and you'll be rewarded if you follow it all the way to the end.

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