What We’re Reading – Wednesday, April 20, 2016
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Fulton County Approves $49k in Battle against Heroin
11 Alive television news
http://www.11alive.com/news/local/fulton-co-approves-49k-in-battle-against-heroin/145361424
Bad Checks, Foreclosure, Unpaid Bills Plague Commissioner (Barnes-Sutton, DeKalb County)
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/bad-checks-foreclosure-unpaid-bills-plague-commiss/nQbzD/
Cities Face Deadlines for Sales Tax Ballot Question
North Fulton.com
http://www.northfulton.com/stories/Cities-face-deadlines-for-sales-tax-ballot-question,90908
Opinion: Guns and Learning Don’t Mix
The Chronicle of Higher Education
http://www.chronicle.com/article/GunsLearning-Don-t-Mix/236155
Gentrification Spotlight: How Portland is Pushing Out its Black Residents
Color Lines
The Secret Shame of Middle Class Americans
The Atlantic
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/05/my-secret-shame/476415/
Worked to death: The aging face of the American labor force
People’s World
http://www.peoplesworld.org/worked-to-death-the-aging-face-of-the-american-labor-force/
The Neighborhood Veto and the “Missing Middle”
Planetizen
http://www.planetizen.com/node/85659/neighborhood-veto-and-missing-middle
Target Raising Minimum Wage to $10 an Hour
CBS 46 television news
http://www.cbs46.com/story/31758782/target-raising-minimum-wage-to-10-an-hour
For News Outlets Squeezed from the middle, it’s bend or bust
New York Times
The Fundamental Contradictions of U.S. Housing Policy
City Lab
www.citylab.com/housing/2015/10/the-fundamental-contradictions-of-us-housing-policy/410488/
Marijuana Advocates Get a Meeting with the White House
Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/marijuana-white-house-obama_us_5717adc4e4b0c9244a7a7ec4
Is the Seafood You Eat Caught by Slaves? Meet the Pulitzer Winners Who Broke Open a Global Scandal
Democracy Now radio news
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/4/18/is_the_seafood_you_eat_caught
Venezuela’s socialist government, besieged, finds worldwide support
People’s World
http://peoplesworld.org/venezuela-s-socialist-government-besieged-finds-worldwide-support/
Greenpeace Activists Climb Nelson’s Column in Air Pollution Protest
Guardian (UK)
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