The New York Times: Trump’s war on the poor
The cruelty of this administration’s cuts isn’t a bug, it’s a feature.
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New York Times: A lynching memorial is opening. The country has never seen anything like it.
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening Thursday in Montgomery, Ala., is dedicated to victims of white supremacy.
The Atlantic: What happens when geneticists talk sloppily about race
The field widely agrees that race is a social construct, but gets into trouble when it ignores semantics.
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The New York Times: Zelle, the banks’ answer to Venmo, proves vulnerable to fraud
The personal payment platform Zelle is flourishing. But so are fraudsters, who are exploiting weaknesses in the banks’ security.
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The New York Times: Blacks still face a red line on housing
The Great Recession reduced the African-American homeownership rate to levels not seen since housing discrimination was legal in the 1960s.
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The New York Times: Why America’s black mothers and babies are in a life-or-death crisis
The answer to the disparity in death rates has everything to do with the lived experience of being a black woman in America.
The Cut: What a massive new study on income inequality misses about black women
Black women, too, must have equal pay — not to white women, but to white men.
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The New York Times: The race-based mortgage penalty
A study found that minorities are denied mortgages more than whites, even when accounting for income and other factors.
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New York Times: The U.S. can no longer hide from its deep poverty problem
There are 5.3 million Americans who are absolutely poor by global standards. This more than in Sierra Leone (3.2 million) or Nepal (2.5 million).
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New York Times: When gentrification isn’t about housing
Gentrification has become a more capacious idea lately. The poor are still gentrification’s victims, but in this new meaning, the harm is not rent increases and displacement — it’s something psychic, a theft of pride and an appropriation of culture.
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New York Times: Democrats add momentum to G.O.P. push to loosen banking rules
The most significant attempt to loosen rules imposed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis is underway in Congress as the Senate looks to pass legislation within the next month that would roll back restrictions on swaths of the finance industry.
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New York Times: The best and worst places to grow up
Children who grow up in some places go on to earn much more than they would if they grew up elsewhere.
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New York Times: The Great American Single-Family Home Problem
Building more housing, more densely, could help address a widespread economic challenge. A fight over one lot in Berkeley, California shows how tough that could be.
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