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Who Makes Cents?: A History Of Capitalism Podcast, February 2024, Tim Keogh On Suburban Poverty And The Roots Of Postwar Inequality In 2022, roughly one in 10 suburban residents lived in poverty (9.6%), compared to about one in six in primary cities (16.2%), according to a recent study by the Brookings Institute. The issue of […]

Axios, February 16, 2024, Health Care Workers Say Patient Discrimination Is A Big Problem More than half of health care workers say racial discrimination against patients is a major problem or crisis, while nearly half report seeing it happen in their own workplaces, according to a large national survey. Why it matters: It’s well-documented how racism in health care

Planetizen, February 16, 2024, Research: Housing First Works Despite recent opinions that the homelessness response model known as Housing First is too expensive and inefficient, a report from the Urban Institute asserts that “Misconceptions about Housing First ignore decades of evidence of its effectiveness.” According to the report, “Randomized controlled trials in the US and Canada have

Reuters, February 16, 2024, US Single-Family Housing Starts Fall In January; Permits Rise Single-family housing starts, which account for the bulk of homebuilding, dropped 4.7% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.004 million units last month, the Commerce Department’s Census Bureau said on Friday. Data for December was revised up to show single-family starts

Stateline, February 13, 2024, Governments Can Erase Your Medical Debt For Pennies On The Dollar–And Some Are Medical debt is the leading cause of bankruptcies in the United States, and more than 2 in 5 American adults have some. In many cases, the money people owe to health care providers forces them to cut spending

The Guardian, February 16, 2024, US Unions Target The Housing Affordability Crisis as Their ‘Biggest Issue’ Housing has been a big issue in the recent rolling strikes by thousands of Los Angeles hotel workers. In Oregon, 400 Yamhill county government employees went on strike in November because, the union said, “many workers are not able to afford housing”.

The New York Times, February 15, 2024, Mayor Adams Is Sued Over Failure To Comply With New Housing Laws The Legal Aid Society sued Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday for not complying with new laws meant to address rising homelessness and the influx of tens of thousands of migrants. In the coming days, the City

Boston.com, February 14, 2024, ‘We Need Housing’: Healey Tells Milton To Approve Multifamily Zoning Gov. Maura Healey is urging voters in Milton to vote yes during a special town election, which was rescheduled from Tuesday to Wednesday due to the letdown snowstorm. The town-wide vote will determine if Milton’s zoning bylaws will change to be compliant with the state’s MBTA

NBC News, February 14, 2024, ‘I Was Terrified’: Black Women May Prefer Black OB-GYNs Due TO Fear Of Discrimination, Dying During Pregnancy Fear of discrimination and dying during pregnancy and childbirth may lead pregnant Black women to prefer seeing a Black obstetrician, a small study suggests.  Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill conducted a series

Next City, February 15, 2024, The People Who Enable Thriving Affordable Housing Communities We’re falling behind in a host of crucial areas, from health care and nutrition to child care and senior care. Without these services, we see senior citizens struggling to make do, children unprepared to thrive in school, poor health outcomes for people of

The New York Times, February 13, 2024, Crypto PAC Jumps Into Senate Race, Opposing Katie Porter in California The biggest name and the biggest spender of crypto money in the 2022 election cycle is now awaiting his prison sentence for fraud and conspiracy. But new super PACs have sprouted up as the successors to the collapsed

The New York Times, February 13, 2024, Student Housing Has A New Mantra: Bigger Is Better Off-campus student housing complexes across the country are getting larger, some home to more than 1,500 students, and they are being built on prime parcels as close to campus as possible, as developers seek to better manage their bottom

Mother Jones, February 10, 2024, How The FBI Infiltrated Denver’s Racial Justice Movement The latest episode of Reveal looks at the FBI’s attempt to undermine Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.

Gothamist, February 12, 2024, NJ Lawmakers Pass Bill To Get More Affordable Housing Near Transit, Grocery Stores The state Assembly voted 51-28 on Monday to pass the latest version of a bill that makes sweeping changes to how New Jersey assigns and enforces towns’ requirements to build affordable housing. It includes a number of incentives

Market Watch, February 13, 2024, Housing Costs Are Still Rising, But That Won’t Stop The Fed From Cutting Interest Rates For over a year, economists and financial market experts have been confidently arguing that shelter costs are on the cusp of rolling over. So it was a surprise to many when shelter costs accelerated in