inequality
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Not Everyone Can Go To School Online
This week, Washington state governor Jay Inslee announced that the U.S. state’s schools would remain closed for the remainder of the school year, mandating that the state’s more than 1 million K-12 students would be learning from home through the end of June. These students are in good company: To date, more than a dozen…
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Poor Countries Are Hit Worst By Extreme Weather, But No One Is Safe
If you asked me to guess the top three countries impacted by the climate crisis, I’d probably choose three countries in the Global South. I might guess the Philippines because it’s seen such bad typhoons in recent years. Maybe I’d say Uganda because it’s had such awful drought seasons, or Yemen because its water shortages…
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South Koreans May Soon Live To Be 90, But The Short, Violent Grandkids Of The USA Won’t
Here’s the good news: According to a comprehensive new study, the average life expectancy will increase globally by 2030, with South Korean women born that year expected to live 90.8 years, the longest of the 35 countries analysed. Here’s the bad news: Americans will die younger than their international peers and possibly even shorter than…
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The Drivers Of SF’s Tech Buses Are Paid So Little They’re Forced To Live In Cars
The buses that shuttle San Francisco tech workers to and from their Silicon Valley jobs each day have been blamed for displacing longtime residents. In a heartbreaking twist, the drivers of those buses are paid so little that they, too, have been priced out of San Francisco — and some of them must live in…