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How Raising The Minimum Wage To $15 Changed These Workers’ Lives
By Dave Jamieson In late 2013, voters in this airport town outside Seattle narrowly approved a groundbreaking measure setting a minimum wage of $15 per hour for certain workers. When the new law went into effect last year, Sammi Babakrkhil … Continue reading
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Tagged employment, income inequality, job, low wages, minimum wage, Seattle, wage increase, wages
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‘Baltimore For Real’: A Tour Through Troubled Sandtown
By Nurith Aizenman Travon Addison is an athletic 25-year-old, with short cropped hair, a wispy beard and tattoos all over his arms. I first spot him with a pack of his buddies in the lobby of Baltimore’s New Shiloh Baptist … Continue reading
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Tagged #OneBaltimore, Freddie Gray shooting, race, Sandtown
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Baltimore’s Poor White Residents Harassment
By Wilson Dizard Pigtown is a Baltimore neighborhood some two miles south of Sandtown, Freddie Gray’s neighborhood. Gray’s death on April 19, a week after the 25-year-old black man was arrested and suffered injuries while in police custody, triggered mass … Continue reading
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Tagged Baltimore, Billyland, Pigtown, police abuse, race
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As investigation enters fifth month, Tamir Rice’s mother has moved into a homeless shelter
By Wesley Lowery The City of Cleveland has asked the family of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy shot and killed while he played with a toy gun in a Westside park in November, to halt their civil lawsuit until the … Continue reading
Help Baltimore by Restoring Voting Rights to Ex-Felons
By Ari Berman Freddie Gray’s neighborhood in Baltimore had the highest incarceration rate of anywhere in the city. More than 450 adults from Sandtown-Winchester are in state prison, and one in four juveniles were arrested from 2005 to 2009. These statistics … Continue reading
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Tagged Baltimore, felony conviction, justice, law, Maryland, mass incarceration, politics, race, voting, voting rights
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‘Our Demand Is Simple: Stop Killing Us.’
By Jay Caspian King On the evening of April 25 at the corner of Pratt and Light Streets, in Baltimore’s revitalized downtown district, more than 100 police officers in riot gear stood shoulder to shoulder, shields up. Six officers on … Continue reading
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Tagged #OneBaltimore, facebook, Ferguson, Freddie Gray, internet, Michael Brown, protests, St. Louis County, technology, twitter
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Here’s How The Nation’s Two Largest States Plan To Crack Down On Predatory Lending
By Alan Pyke http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/payday-loans-neon-sign-royalty-free-image/173610801 Predatory lenders thrive in Texas, where regulations are scarce on stores that offer payday advance loans and allow borrowers to put their cars up as collateral for high-cost, short-term credit. But a trio of bills being … Continue reading
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Tagged business, California, economy, money, Payday loan, predatory lending, Texas
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Game on Baltimore & Being a Part of ’92 L.A. Riots: ‘Young Black Men Are Targets’
After a day of unrest and rioting in Baltimore on Monday, April 28, the tension between its citizens and law enforcement lessened a bit on Tuesday with few arrests made, mostly over refusal to adhere to a local-government-mandated curfew. The … Continue reading
Prince Records Tribute to the People of Baltimore, Shares Artwork
Prince will share his feelings on the unrest in Baltimore in the way he knows best — in song. The legendary artist has recorded a “tribute to all of the people of the city of Baltimore,” a spokesperson tells Billboard. … Continue reading
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Tagged #OneBaltimore, entertainment, Freddy Gray, music, prince, social activism, social awareness
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Apartheid Games: Baltimore, Urban America, and Camden Yards
By Dave Zirin If you don’t understand Oriole Park at Camden Yards, then you can’t understand why Baltimore exploded this week. If you don’t understand Oriole Park at Camden Yards then you can’t understand why what happened in Baltimore can … Continue reading
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