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<em>Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism,</em> Anne Case and Angus Deaton
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'Deaths Of Despair' Examines The Steady Erosion Of U.S. Working-Class Life

Mar 18, 2020
Princeton Profs. Anne Case and Angus Deaton make the case that something has gone grievously wrong, starting with the shift to declining life expectancy numbers around the year 2000.
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Politics
Kanesha Adams stands in the parking lot outside of Jim Clyburn's World-Famous Fish Fry on June 21 in Columbia, S.C. The event featured appearances by 21 Democratic presidential candidates seeking voters in the early primary state.
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Black Women, Motivated To Oust Trump, Aren't Convinced Of Any Democrat Yet

Jun 26, 2019
While former Vice President Joe Biden has a commanding lead in early polling for the Democratic nomination, black women interviewed by NPR all say they are still weighing their options.
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Shots - Health News
Clarisa Corber at work at a Topeka, Kan., insurance agency. Corber and her husband — who have three kids, a health plan and $15,000 in medical debt — were profiled in a recent <em>Los Angeles Times</em> <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na
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Employees Start To Feel The Squeeze Of High-Deductible Health Plans

May 03, 2019
The average deductible for employer-sponsored health insurance has quadrupled in the last 12 years. A Los Angeles Times investigation finds even insured workers are going without needed medical care.
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Code Switch
Author Ta-Nehisi Coates says of Trump voters: "I think if you say, 'Well yeah, Donald Trump ran a racist campaign, but I voted for him despite that,' that is to say that having somebody who runs that type of campaign is not a disqualifier to you."
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'His Ideology Is White Supremacy': Ta-Nehisi Coates On Donald Trump

Sep 07, 2017
NPR's Rachel Martin talks to writer Ta-Nehisi Coates about his cover story in The Atlantic magazine about Donald Trump, and how voters reacted to the first African-American president.
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Race
Federal housing policies created after the Depression ensured that African-Americans and other people of color were left out of the new suburban communities — and pushed instead into urban housing projects, such as Detroit's Brewster-Douglass towers.
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A 'Forgotten History' Of How The U.S. Government Segregated America

May 03, 2017
Author Richard Rothstein says the housing programs begun under the New Deal were tantamount to a "state-sponsored system of segregation," in which people of color were purposely excluded from suburbs.
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Politics
Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, fell short in his effort to topple Nancy Pelosi as the Democratic House minority leader.
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Pelosi Overcomes Challenge To Win Re-Election As House Democratic Leader

Nov 30, 2016
The California Democrat got 134 votes to Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan's 63, but it was the most serious challenge to her leadership she has faced since taking over the top slot in the House in 2003.
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Politics

The 'Dangerous, Volatile Game' Trump Plays With The White Working Class

Nov 03, 2016
New Yorker writer George Packer says years of neglect from the Democrats enabled Trump to exploit the biases of the white working class and turn them into a "self-conscious identity group."
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Politics
Hillary Clinton arrives to sign her book "Hards Choices" at a bookstore on Martha's Vineyard on August 13, 2014. According to the Clintons' 2015 tax returns, the couple earned $3.1 million from book advances and royalties.
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How Rich Candidates Try To Appeal To Working Voters

Aug 13, 2016
In an election year characterized by populist energy over economic concerns like jobs and trade, the gap between the wealth of both major party candidates and typical voters is striking.
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Politics
Graduates arrive at the start of their commencement ceremony on the campus of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., in 2015.
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The Latest Clinton Converts? White, College-Educated Voters

Aug 12, 2016
Polls show Hillary Clinton is leading among white, college-educated voters — a demographic group that has consistently voted Republican for decades. But Donald Trump has pushed many over to Clinton.
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Politics
Donald Trump is hoping he can rewrite the GOP's electoral math if he becomes the party's presidential nominee.
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Can Donald Trump Rewrite The Electoral Map For The GOP?

Mar 18, 2016
Trump says the new voters he's turning out can put Midwestern swing states in play. But it's a gamble whether he could win over enough white voters for every minority voter he drives the other way.
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