"For every member of every group in every race that doesn't graduate from high school, the past 18 years have been devastating," Monica Potts said on Melissa Harris-Perry's show this weekend. "The jobs available to them don't pay very well ... they don't provide a ladder to the middle class. Something about that, something about really not having hope for your own future, may be shortening their life spans."
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Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can't Pray
Oct 4, 2013
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The Wendy Davis Scouting Report
Oct 3, 2013
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You’re Tearing Us Apart, Tommy!
Oct 4, 2013
Must-Reads
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Pandora's Box
Oct 1, 2013
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This Madness Will Never End
Oct 1, 2013
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Racing to Run a City without a Motor
Oct 2, 2013
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John Boehner Has Speaker Tenure for Life—If He Wants It
Sep 30, 2013
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The Day after Shutdown
Sep 23, 2013
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The Conservative Plan for Medicaid Expansion
Sep 19, 2013
The Magazine
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What's Killing Poor White Women?
For most Americans, life expectancy continues to rise—but not for uneducated white women. They have lost five years, and no one knows why.
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Fashioning Justice for Bangladesh
Western multinationals are behind disasters like the Bangladesh factory collapse. Will public outrage and a new labor agreement lead to improvements for workers?
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L.A. Story
The Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy: a new model for American liberalism?
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The Withered Writ
Habeas corpus, the age-old means for prisoners to challenge their detention, has never been more restricted than it is now.
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Los Infiltradores
How three young undocumented activists risked everything to expose the injustices of immigrant detention—and invented a new form of protest.
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