12.01.2021

december 2021

unrest (2017), the river runner, miss sloane (2016), the alpinist (2020), 14 peaks (2021), don't look up


The Atlantic - How Parking Destroys Cities
NYT - How Beijing Influences the Influencers
Pew Research - The State of Gig Work in 2021
Neiman Lab - It’s not their job to buy you cake
LA Times - How will California’s new laws affect you?
Outside - Cotopaxi opens up about recent Facebook scam
BBC - New Zealand to ban cigarettes for future generations
Chron - Volunteers need help replacing stolen ghost bikes in Houston
The Nation - New York City’s Radical Proposal for Noncitizen Voting
The Conversation - How Christmas Became an American Holiday Tradition
Gastro Obscura - Why Are So Dang Many Potato Chip Brands From Pennsylvania?
Rest of World - How Shein beat Amazon at its own game — and reinvented fast fashion
NPR - This Is How The White Population Is Actually Changing Based On New Census Data
SF Gate - San Francisco-based DoorDash is requiring engineers to deliver food — and they’re furious
CBS - Millions of workers retired during the pandemic. The economy needs them to "unretire," experts say.
Kaiser Health News - West Virginia Sen. Manchin Takes the Teeth Out of Democrats’ Plan for Seniors’ Dental Care
Huffington Post - I'm Black But Look White. Here Are The Horrible Things White People Feel Safe Telling Me.

ProPublica - States Are Hoarding $5.2 Billion in Welfare Funds Even as the Need for Aid Grows
"According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 16.1% of children under age 18 lived in poverty in 2020, up from 14.4% the year before."
"Tennessee has $790 million in federal welfare funding sitting around — the largest pool of unspent welfare dollars nationwide — though it has recently promised to spend it. Hawaii has $364 million idling in an account, equivalent to $2,923 per person living in poverty. And Oklahoma has $264 million, nearly double its annual TANF budget of $138 million."