Voices, The Peoples News
August 18, 2021
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
Policing on American Indian Reservations. A Report to the National Institute of Justice. More than 200 police departments operate in Indian Country, serving an even larger number of tribal communities. Officers and nonsworn staff of these departments are tribal employees https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/188095.pdf__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHEg98K4v$
# Animals / Pets / Alerts / Food Recalls
Covid-19 isn’t the only disease that Texans are dealing with in 2021.
Media reports recently emerged of an outbreak of a viral disease amongst dogs at The Humane Society of North Texas (HSNT) Shelter in Fort Worth.
Distemper, a deadly disease that affects several animals such as Dogs, Ferrets, and Raccoons. It’s important to remember that the disease can’t be transmitted from dogs to humans.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.newsbreak.com/@matt-lillywhite-561024/2341931141574/health-alert-a-deadly-disease-is-spreading-amongst-dogs-in-north-texas__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHD3YmK06$
# CoronaVirus
New research provides clues to developing better intranasal vaccines for
COVID-19 and flu. “Our study shows that both integrity and amounts of nasal bacteria may be critical for effective intranasal vaccine. We showed that oral bacteria-combined intranasal vaccine protects from influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2 infection.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210817/Study-explores-the-role-of-nasal-bacteria-and-provides-clues-to-developing-better-flu-COVID-19-vaccines.aspx__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHIn-kdEk$
Federal Vaccine Program Hasn’t Helped Those Whose Lives Were Altered by Covid Shot. The options are slim for people who suffer rare life-altering injuries after a covid shot — a problem whose significance has grown as states and the federal government increasingly ponder vaccination mandates.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/covid-19/federal-vaccine-program-hasnt-helped-those-whose-lives-were-altered-covid-shot__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHA0sWrJh$
Biden administration recommends COVID-19 boosters; effort to begin Sept.
20. The Biden administration is recommending booster doses for most Americans who received a coronavirus vaccine in order to combat waning immunity and the prevalence of the delta variant.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/568358-biden-administration-recommends-covid-19-boosters-effort-to-begin-sept-20__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHO18L3AW$
# Economy / Trade
Wealth, Income, and Power – Who Rules America? This document presents details on the wealth and income distributions in the United States, and explains how we use these two distributions as power indicators. For purposes of studying the wealth distribution, economists define wealth in terms of marketable assets, such as real estate, stocks, and bonds https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://whorulesamerica.ucsc.edu/power/wealth.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHCJC7Lrk$
# Employment / Labor
“Bar Rescue” host and Laura Ingraham discuss cutting unemployment aid to make workers “hungry” like an “obedient dog”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/08/bar-rescue-host-and-laura-ingraham-discuss-cutting-unemployment-aid-to-make-workers-hungry-like-an-obedient-dog/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHJJyIayX$
A Republican push meant to prevent Texas municipalities from protecting workers from the coronavirus pandemic also threatens to eliminate bare-bones requirements in two cities giving construction workers time to hydrate in the heat. That’s seen by many as minimal protections in a state where summer heat routinely rises above 100 degrees Fahrenheit and where the number of dangerously hot days is expected to increase with climate change.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.eenews.net/articles/people-can-die-texas-bill-would-strip-worker-water-breaks/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHC3bG8RS$
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemicals Biden draws ire of GOP, progressives with call to boost OPEC output. The Biden administration managed to draw criticism from both Republicans and progressives last week when it called on other countries to produce more oil amid high gasoline prices in the U.S.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/568306-biden-draws-ire-of-gop-progressives-with-call-to-boost-opec-output__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHMj9ISeE$
# Environment / Climate / Interior
New climate maps show a transformed United States. According to new data from the Rhodium Group analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures and changing rainfall will drive agriculture and temperate climates northward, while sea level rise will consume coastlines and dangerous levels of humidity will swamp the Mississippi River valley.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://projects.propublica.org/climate-migration/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHJ1fmotT$
# Environment / Climate / Global
An underwater volcanic eruption near Japan has created a new, crescent-shaped island 745 miles south of Tokyo – although the new landmass will likely only be temporary. Niijima, meaning ‘new island’, has a diameter of 0.6 miles and has emerged 3.1 miles north of Minami-Iōtō, amid the Nanpō Islands that lie south of the Japanese archipelago.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/underwater-volcano-745-miles-south-of-tokyo-has-created-a-new-island/ar-AANsghS?ocid=winp1taskbar__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHFIhP7Hi$
# Food / GMOs / Chemicals / Other
Extreme-heat death of Sebastian Perez. The extreme-heat death of an Oregon farmworker and hundreds of others in late June could have been avoided. Climate negligence and lagging worker protections are killing people https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/heat-wave-2021-oregon-deaths-sebastian-perez-1211258/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHP4O-Rvy$
Cross-border Salish Sea study finds key puzzle pieces of wild salmon die-off A massive cross-border research and conservation effort has yielded a potential roadmap to save wild salmon in the Salish Sea.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nationalobserver.com/2021/08/17/news/salish-sea-study-wild-salmon-die-off__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHFw3LSC7$
USDA Crop Tour Warns: Megadrought Impacting Corn And Soybean Yields.
Crop conditions for soybeans and corn have worsened in the latest crop tour findings in the US which confirmed hot and dry weather this summer has taken a toll on yields.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/usda-crop-tour-warns-megadrought-impacting-corn-and-soybean-yields__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHG9ZrXEY$
Biden takes a stand against the GOP’s assault on food stamps. Biden’s Department of Agriculture will grow SNAP in a way that will boost recipient families’ monthly benefits by 27 percent, on average, compared to pre-pandemic levels.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.motherjones.com/food/2021/08/biden-snap-food-assistance-hunger-trump-usda/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHEswPj7v$
# Global Politics and other news
Transcript of the Taliban’s first news conference in Kabul. Taliban spokesperson addresses the public in first conference following the armed group’s takeover of Afghanistan. “We have expelled the foreigners and I would like to congratulate the whole nation on this. This is pride, not only for a limited number of people. This is a proud moment for the whole nation. This kind of pride is rare when it can be achieved.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/17/transcript-of-talibans-first-press-conference-in-kabul__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHNxwWNZq$
US must complete withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan by September 11, Taliban spokesperson says. The US will not meet the May 1 deadline agreed upon by the Trump administration and the Taliban.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/13/biden-to-withdraw-us-troops-from-afghanistan-by-september-11__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHJNDAVDm$
Taliban destroy statue of foe, stoking fear over their rule.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-taliban-afghanistan-fears-20210818-wa2ao7e5hbhnxbrpp4mvaai4ka-story.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHI_UzMRx$
Public executions and forced marriages are reportedly back. People are fleeing. The Taliban are in Kabul, and the government has fallen. This is a catastrophe. This negligence was par for the course for the last U.S. administration. At minimum, the Biden administration owed our Afghan allies of 20 years a real plan.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/08/17/afghanistan-withdrawal-taliban-biden-congress-democrats-military-plan/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=41536__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHLvozs6r$
Taliban Beats, Whips Women and Kids Near Airport: Shocking photos showed women and children covered in blood at one checkpoint.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/18/afghanistan-reports-emerge-of-taliban-beating-afghans-seeking-to-flee-kabul__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHK1u6a2I$
Dozens of Afghans sprint alongside and cling onto a U.S. military aircraft in an apparent attempt to stop it taking off without them at the Kabul airport. https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nbcnews.to/3m26U9I__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHIjLiXqi$
‘Gunfire, Whips, Sticks’: Taliban Opens Fire on First Street Protests Against Takeover. Shocking photos also showed women and children covered in blood at one Kabul checkpoint.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thedailybeast.com/taliban-fighters-beating-and-whipping-women-and-kids-on-way-to-airport-reports-say__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHAr3KA5Q$
Afghan women express shock, fear, defiance under new Taliban rule. Women and girls in Afghanistan are facing a deeply uncertain and scary future with the Taliban in control of the country following the collapse of a U.S.-backed government and the exit of U.S. troops.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/policy/international/568399-afghan-women-express-shock-fear-defiance-under-new-taliban-rule__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHKrETNYE$
Daughter Describes Watching the Taliban Beat Mother to Death After She Said She Couldn’t Cook for Them. “My mother told them, ‘I am poor, how can I cook for you?’ ” the woman told CNN, so the Taliban “started beating her.” A traumatized daughter is recounting how insurgency fighters beat her mother to death with AK-47s earlier this summer when she was unable to supply the group with food.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://people.com/politics/daughter-recounts-witnessing-taliban-beat-mom-to-death/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHFqjQMrb$
# Gov / Politics
Democrats vent frustration with Biden on Afghanistan: President Biden is in the middle of his first unanticipated crisis, and even many members of his own party are appalled. The chaotic scenes in Afghanistan have transformed a popular decision by Biden, ending the 20-year war, into a debacle.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/homenews/the-memo/568304-the-memo-democrats-vent-frustration-with-biden-on-afghanistan__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHMGII1N4$
Texas House Democrats who refuse to show up to the state Capitol to prevent Republican lawmakers from passing a voting restrictions bill can be arrested and brought to the lower chamber, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/17/texas-house-democrats-arrest-quorum/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHGCpM8X7$
Team MAGA Goes Full Nativist on Afghan Refugees. It didn’t take long for the MAGA message machine to turn against Afghan refugees still struggling to leave their destabilized country.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thedailybeast.com/team-maga-goes-full-nativist-on-afghan-refugees__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHP9nQiG1$
Biden’s Big Plans for America Just Blew Up in Afghanistan: With the slimmest of congressional majorities, the commander in chief’s agenda may not survive this self-inflicted foreign-policy disaster.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thedailybeast.com/bidens-big-plans-for-america-just-blew-up-in-afghanistan__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHC2syAgD$
Intelligence Warned of Afghan Military Collapse, Despite Biden’s Assurances https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thehill.com/policy/defense/568244-grim-intelligence-assessments-did-not-match-bidens-assurances-on-afghanistan__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHLL7Vs1V$
White House Admits ‘Fair Amount’ of US Equipment in Afghanistan in Taliban Hands. The Biden administration is still trying to determine the amount of American military equipment that is now in the hands of the extremist insurgents.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nypost.com/2021/08/17/wh-says-armed-taliban-have-us-guns-taken-from-afghan-forces/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHPfOadt2$
In Afghanistan, Don’t Blame Biden, Blame Bush: If you want to ascribe blame for the “failure” in Afghanistan, you’ll find it in the decision to invade Iraq. President Joe Biden did not fail there, he did his best to work through an impossible situation made worse by former President George W. Bush.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nationalinterest.org/feature/don**Bt-blame-joe-biden-afghan-debacle-191745__;4oCZ!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHEtBjfcP$
The Afghanistan Debacle: How Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden Bamboozled the American Public: The Taliban takeover in Afghanistan and the calamitous collapse of Kabul are the result of years of American failure to understand that nation and that war—an immense failure that was covered up by the administrations of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/08/the-afghanistan-debacle-this-land-sneak-peek/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHLV1xdTO$
Asylum Is Dead. The Myth of American Decency Died With It. Donald Trump took a broken asylum system and turned it into a machine of unchecked cruelty. Why Afghan refugees will encounter a system that has been politicized to the point of collapse.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/10/donald-trump-asylum-stephen-miller-guatemala-central-america/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHJFr-xeJ$
The U.S. has nothing to show for its efforts after trillions of dollars were spent on wars in Iraq, Syria, Libya, and beyond, but blood in the sand. For decades, the American political class has intervened relentlessly and recklessly in countries whose people they hold in contempt.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/afghanistan-latest-debacle-of-us-foreign-policy-by-jeffrey-d-sachs-2021-08__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHGUeD-dy$
Countering the changing threat of international terrorism: Report of the National Commission on Terrorism: Surprise, when it happens to a government, is likely to be a complicated, diffuse, bureaucratic thing.
It includes neglect of responsibility but also responsibility so poorly defined or so ambiguously delegated that action gets lost.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://fas.org/irp/threat/commission.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHOydSd7O$
Biden and Milley misled about the Afghan army numbers, citing numbers that did not take into account things such as casualties, capture, and capitulation.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/biden-and-milley-misled-about-the-afghan-army-numbers/ar-AANtdC9?ocid=winp1taskbar__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHDFAPJTa$
# Law Enforcement
Police: Why did a “Blue Alert” pop up on cellphones all over Texas late at night? Law enforcement officials were looking for a white four-door Cadillac whose driver shot at a Clay County deputy.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2021/08/17/what-is-a-blue-alert-and-what-caused-the-one-issued-monday-night/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHC3DqM6d$
# Legal / Judicial / DOJ
Philadelphia Ex-Cops Charged in Wrongful Conviction of Black Man Who Was Jailed for 25 Years. The charges follow a damning grand jury report that found Santiago and Martin coerced Wright, then 20 years old, into signing a false confession admitting to raping and killing 77-year-old Louise Talley in 1991.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/ex-philly-homicide-detectives-charged-in-mans-wrongful-conviction/2926490/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHGmzHQeK$
# Medical / Health
Sacklers Say They Won’t Pay $4.5 Billion Opioids Settlement Unless Shielded from Future Lawsuits. US bankruptcy trustee, nine states and DC objecting to settlement plan because it would grant legal protection to Sacklers https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/17/sackler-family-purdue-pharma-settlement-opioid-lawsuits__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHAofZsMq$
# Military / DOD
Why did a military superpower fail in Afghanistan? This external approach, based on military occupation, to promote democracy in occupied foreign countries was “doomed to fail.”
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theconversation.com/why-did-a-military-superpower-fail-in-afghanistan-166238__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHFrK6Nlw$
No capability to ‘collect large numbers’ of Americans – Pentagon chief:
U.S. troops do not currently have the capability to help people reach Kabul airport to be evacuated from Afghanistan because they are focused on securing the airfield, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Wednesday.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/watch/no-capability-to-collect-large-numbers-of-americans-pentagon-chief/vp-AANtihe?ocid=winp1taskbar__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHE5GuXSH$
Pentagon to Americans stuck in Afghanistan: You’re on your own:
Thousands of Americans are trapped behind enemy lines because of a decision that President Joe Biden made, and our own military is refusing to guarantee their safe return. And make no mistake: this is not a matter of capability. This is a policy decision.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pentagon-to-americans-stuck-in-afghanistan-you-re-on-your-own/ar-AANtqdu?ocid=winp1taskbar__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHO2KzGNH$
# Security
The Threat Posed by the Chinese Government and the Chinese Communist Party to the Economic and National Security of the United States. The greatest long-term threat to our nation’s information and intellectual property, and to our economic vitality, is the counterintelligence and economic espionage threat from China. It’s a threat to our economic security—and by extension, to our national security.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.fbi.gov/news/speeches/the-threat-posed-by-the-chinese-government-and-the-chinese-communist-party-to-the-economic-and-national-security-of-the-united-states__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHJaeJjt7$
# Social
As cities grow in size, the poor ‘get nothing at all’: On average, people in larger cities are better off economically. But a new study published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface builds on previous research that says, that’s not necessarily true for the individual city-dweller. It turns out, bigger cities also produce more income inequality.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://santafe.edu/news-center/news/new-study-prosperity-cities-benefits-few__;!!On18fmf1aQ!lY2c2SimJAgC5qqdwh9zHwTEwmIpQwYk3jUNxEAmg0CrdPwQD-m0nwJy3cveHI7DMvc-$
Corporate Property-Buying Spree May Make Housing Even Less Affordable Amid COVID. Corporate investors have been buying up homes from landlords unable to maintain their properties without rental income.
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