1930 Wall City News
1. “50,000 more drivers needed to meet demand, according to the American trucking associations.” New York Times “Need Fuels Trucking’s Diversity Push” July 28, 2018
2. “Alarmingly high numbers of Americans continue to pay more than half of their income toward rent.” HUD Secretary Ben Carson NYT July 28, 2018
3. “The National Low Income Housing Coalition found that a working earning minimum wage could afford a market rate one-bedroom apartment in only 22 of the country’s 3,000 counties.” NYT July 28, 2018
4. “In 1935 the Supreme Court declared that a prosecutors job is more than merely winning every case by racking up convictions; it also included seeing that justice is done.” “Pressing Pause on Marijuana Convictions” NYT Opinion July 30, 2018
5. Amazons facial recognition technology currently being used by a number of police departments “incorrectly matched 28 members of Congress with people who had been arrested, amounting to a 5 percent error rate among legislators.” NYT “Tech to Spot Faces Gets It Wrong, Say Lawmakers” NYT Business July 27, 2018
6. “Japan remains one of the few developed countries to maintain the use of capital Punishment for murders by hanging.” NYT July 27, 2018 “Japan Executes 6 in Attack by Cult”
7. “Some 70 million Americans have a criminal record – a number equal to Americans with a college degree,” according to the Brennan Center for Justice. NYT July 27, 2018 “Zero Tolerance for Zero Tolerance”
8. “Living free, after police arrested a totally naked man in a ‘yoga-like pose” at a Planet Fitness gym in New Hampshire.” The man claimed he believed the gym’s slogan that it’s a “judgment Free Zone.” The Week August 3, 2018
9. “A Tennessee man ended up in cuffs after he ditched his date, stole her car, and used it to take another woman on a date.” The Week August 3, 2018
10. “Oral history project the HistoryMakers (thehistorymakers.org) collects the stories of African-Americans who have shaped life in the United States.” The Week August 3, 2018
11. The FBI examined 160 shooting over a decade and found “unarmed citizens successfully retrained shooters in 21 of those incidents” and five ended when armed civilians intervened. The Week August 3, 2018 “The reality of the ‘good guy with a gun’”
12. “African American families comprise 42 percent of welfare recipients…but are 59 percent of poor people shown on television are African American.” “Sustaining Stereotypes” by Lanien Frush Holt in QUILL Summer 2018 www.spj.org/quill
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