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Striking Chicago teachers who are seeking smaller class sizes and higher pay also are demanding that the nation’s third-largest city do more to lower housing costs and put more resources into helping homeless students.

A widely used algorithm that predicts which patients will benefit from extra medical care dramatically underestimates the health needs of the sickest Black patients, amplifying long-standing racial disparities in medicine, researchers have found.

Many of the 1.5 million folks who tuned in Sunday night to watch the premiere of HBO’s transformational comic-book adaptation The Watchmen clearly had a hard time unseeing the horrific first eight minutes of the series, as the words “TULSA 1921” flashed on the screen.

Amado, who is in his 50s, has lived in the United States for nearly 29 years, coming by way of a smuggler through California, on a bus, first to Brooklyn with a brother, then to Queens. He is now in the country legally and able to travel back and forth to Mexico.

He was a leader among leaders. But more than a leader–Elijah Cummings was a friend.

In general, Americans — especially millennials — will need to work longer and claim Social Security later. “Benefits from Social Security are 76% higher if you claim at age 70 versus 62, which can substitute for a lot of extra savings,”

Gentrification is the territorial expansion of a wealthy community into a disinvested neighborhood, the installation of the social and legal regimes of the newcomers, and the deployment of new physical capital, both on a small scale—by homeowners undertaking renovations—and on a larger scale, by landed capitalists and public-sector officials keen to raise revenue.

Oregon is emerging as a testing ground for a new approach to solving the nationwide shortage of affordable housing.

Asked by Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-Va.) on whether he felt the need to apologize for his remarks about “big, hairy men” trying to infiltrate women’s homeless shelters, HUD Secretary Ben Carson declined.

The move, which combines money and land, is the latest effort by technology companies to ease the state’s severe housing shortage.

Tthe President of the United States described the impeachment investigation against him as a “lynching.” This is not by accident.

House Financial Services Committee holds a hearing on “The End of Affordable Housing? A Review of the Trump Administration’s Plans to Change Housing Finance in America,” with testimony from Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Secretary of Housing Dr. Ben Carson.