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This City Came Up With a Simple Solution to Homelessness: Housing
Salt Lake City's Housing First initiative has reduced chronic homelessness by 72 percent. Now other cities are giving it a try.

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Why Do Banks Want Our Deposits? Hint: It’s Not to Make Loans
The answer is that while banks do not need the deposits to create loans, they do need to balance their books; and attracting customer deposits is usually the cheapest …

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Big Pharma Urges Women to Fight for Access to Harmful Pill
The pharmaceutical industry is pressuring the FDA to approve a pill for “Female Sexual Disorder” that comes with some significant side effects for many women.

The Uncertainty of Access: Reproductive Health in the Rio Grande Valley
As goes reproductive health-care access in Texas, so may go the nation.

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Dahr Jamail | On Climate Disruption, Washington Governor Inslee Vows “Disruptive Change“
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee recently toured the Chehalis River Valley to meet with people affected by extreme weather events resulting from climate disruption.

On the News With Thom Hartmann: In the US, Wealth Accumulation Outpacing Income, and More
In today's On the News segment: Wealth accumulation is outpacing income, which may be a sign of upcoming economic trouble, and more.

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Victims of Domestic Violence Getting Longer Prison Sentences Than Their Children’s Abusers?
How “failure to protect” laws are locking up mothers whose partners commit child abuse.

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Super PACs Exploit Disclosure Loophole
Last-minute registration means groups may hide donors until after Election Day.

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The Stealth Campaign to Buy US Courts
With ideological groups increasingly eager to buy seats on state-level benches, judges are forced to act more like politicians.

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Protesters Call for Justice for Transgender Filipina Allegedly Killed by Marine
A candlelight vigil for Jennifer Laude, the 26-year-old transgender Filipina woman who was allegedly murdered by a US Marine, was held in San Francisco.