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Covers:  finance, politics, investigative reporting
Journalist: Capital & Main, Crain Currency + Author: Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man + Skeptic + Dad. (The views expressed here are personal.)
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New York Workers Are Waiting on $79 Million in Back Wages

New York Workers Are Waiting on $79 Million in Back Wages

ProPublica — The New York State Department of Labor still needs to recover 63% of stolen wages during a five-year period analyzed by ProPublica and Documented. The problem? An understaffed agency with poor tools for recovering wages and enforcing judgments.
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Banks Keep Financing Coal Despite Their Net-Zero Pledges Thanks to Massive Loophole

Banks Keep Financing Coal Despite Their Net-Zero Pledges Thanks to Massive Loophole

Capital & Main — JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citibank and Wells Fargo are among those putting big money into companies that operate coal plants.
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Even as His World Imploded, Mr. Vilar Pledged Millions

Even as His World Imploded, Mr. Vilar Pledged Millions

The Wall Street Journal — Alberto Vilar, the arts patron and investment adviser, was in financial straits late last year. He owed money to contractors and his dry cleaner, according to friends, and was behind on paying the maintenance fee on his 11,000-square-foot, duplex apartment in Manhattan.
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Hip-hop Godfather Gil Scott-Heron Is Ready for Carnegie Hall -- New York Magazine - Nymag

Hip-hop Godfather Gil Scott-Heron Is Ready for Carnegie Hall -- New York Magazine - Nymag

Intelligencer — I ain't saying I didn't invent rapping," says Gil Scott-Heron. "I just cannot recall the circumstances." For a man who's missing a few teeth and the hairs on top of his head, and who lost a decade and a half of his life to a cocaine habit that landed him in jail a few times, he seems pretty happy.
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Can Biden Sharply Expand Overtime Pay? - Type Investigations

Can Biden Sharply Expand Overtime Pay? - Type Investigations

Type Investigations — To do so, he will need to learn from the failures of Obama and Carter. After decades of decline in overtime pay, the Biden administration is considering action to sharply expand access in a time of high inflation.
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Overworked and Underpaid

Overworked and Underpaid

Capital & Main — After decades of decline in overtime pay, the Biden administration is considering action to sharply expand access in a time of high inflation. This is the first article ofa four-part series examining the 40-year effort by big business and elected officials to deny Americans extra pay for extra work.
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Can nuclear renaissance be the answer to the climate change crisis?

Can nuclear renaissance be the answer to the climate change crisis?

Fortune — The Biden administration is making a big push for nuclear power once again to be a key part of America's sustainable energy future. The White House requested $1.8 billion for nuclear energy in its fiscal 2022 budget, a 50% increase from last year's levels.
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Eavesdropping on Roy Cohn and Donald Trump

Eavesdropping on Roy Cohn and Donald Trump

The New Yorker — In early March, President Trump sent four tweets accusing his predecessor of wiretapping the phones in Trump Tower in the months before the 2016 election. The tweets were just the latest manifestation of Trump's preoccupation with eavesdropping and surveillance-one that can be traced back decades.
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Will the Biden Administration Deliver on Overtime Pay?

Will the Biden Administration Deliver on Overtime Pay?

The American Prospect — This article was produced by Capital & Main , an award-winning publication that reports from California on economic, political, and social issues. It is co-published here with permission. The typical American is working more hours per week-especially during the COVID pandemic-and yet only a fraction of employees qualify for overtime pay.
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How IBM is preparing for a new era of A.I. ethics

How IBM is preparing for a new era of A.I. ethics

Fortune — Greater awareness of existing algorithms' limitations and increasing global guidelines usher in a new chapter in ethical A.I. applications.
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Inside the Secretive World of Union Busting: Here's How Much Corporations Pay to Bust Unions

Inside the Secretive World of Union Busting: Here's How Much Corporations Pay to Bust Unions

Capital & Main — A handful of workers at the Dollar General In the small Connecticut town of Barkhamsted had grown frustrated last September at being poorly treated by a district manager, amid allegations that sexual harassment was ignored. They became so upset that they sought to form a union to see that their concerns were addressed.
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Democrats blocking Biden's agenda represent some of nation's poorest

Democrats blocking Biden's agenda represent some of nation's poorest

The Guardian — everal of the leading Democrats in Congress who have stood in the way of Joe Biden's $3.5tn budget package, which includes popular provisions widely expected to help working-class Americans, have taken that stance despite representing districts that have some of the highest rates of poverty and income inequality in the country.
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For many workers, raises today don't make up for years of wage stagnation

For many workers, raises today don't make up for years of wage stagnation

Fast Company — Even as retail and hospitality workers see pay hikes, they're often not enough to offset rising prices and years of low pay.
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Amazon has 'come a long way' but still faces a lot of questions on sustainability

Amazon has 'come a long way' but still faces a lot of questions on sustainability

Fortune — Amazon has made significant improvements on sustainability recently, but it still has a way to go when it comes to supplier requirements and overall disclosures.
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How Saudi Arabia Restored Its U.S. Influence Machine After the Khashoggi Murder

How Saudi Arabia Restored Its U.S. Influence Machine After the Khashoggi Murder

Foreign Policy Magazine — In the months after Saudi officials killed Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, several high-powered lobbyists in Washington severed ties with Riyadh. The murder of the dissident inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in late 2018 was so ghastly and so brazen, Washington influencers who often represent unsavory regimes no longer wanted to be tarred by the association with Saudi Arabia.
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This author has interviewed hundreds of whistle-blowers. Here's what makes them tick

This author has interviewed hundreds of whistle-blowers. Here's what makes them tick

Fast Company — Thomas Mueller spent seven years researching and interviewing whistle-blowers for his new book 'Crisis of Conscience.' And it couldn't have landed at a better time.
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Mr. Murder

Mr. Murder

The New York Times — It was the third game of the 1986 World Series, with the Mets drubbing the Red Sox, scoring four runs in the first inning behind the strong pitching of Bob Ojeda, when the 110th Precinct got the call. A woman was alarmed because there was no answer at her brother's co-op apartment in Elmhurst, Queens.
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It's not just Facebook. GOP-linked firm "brought oppo research to Silicon Valley"

It's not just Facebook. GOP-linked firm "brought oppo research to Silicon Valley"

Fast Company — Definers Public Affairs has sought to discredit opponents in part by spreading misleading stories via a network of right-wing sites-and through Facebook.
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How Living On Jane Jacobs's Favorite Block Changed My Life

How Living On Jane Jacobs's Favorite Block Changed My Life

Fast Company — The legendary urbanist, who wrote her iconic The Death and Life of Great American Cities in my old hood, would have turned 100 today.
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The shady college football team that gets paid to lose games

The shady college football team that gets paid to lose games

New York Post — On a warm August afternoon in 2014, about 20 minutes from Charlotte, North Carolina, the worst team in college football was taking a pounding. The College of Faith Saints didn't stand a chance against the Davidson College Wildcats, who were cruising to a 56-0 victory in front of their home crowd when Saints nose tackle Gerald Carr crumpled to the turf.
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How Gil Scott-Heron, Battling His Record Label and Cocaine, Shaped the Birth of Rap

How Gil Scott-Heron, Battling His Record Label and Cocaine, Shaped the Birth of Rap

Vanity Fair — The advent of hip-hop only increased the pressure on Scott-Heron to adapt his sound to please audiences. In the mid-80s, as groups such as Run-D.M.C.
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Cave In: How Industry And Inattention Killed Mine Safety Bill

Cave In: How Industry And Inattention Killed Mine Safety Bill

Huffington Post — "Every mine law ever wrote has been written in blood, but this time even that wasn't enough" - Fred Burgess, whose stepson died in the Upper Big Branch mine explosion in April. In the wake of a tragic mine explosion in West Virginia resulting in many deaths, members of Congress from both parties push to toughen mine safety laws and increase penalties for habitual violators. The bill passes the Senate by unanimous content and sails through the House before landing on the president's desk and being signed into law. That was 2006's MINER Act, prompted by the Sago mine explosion in which 13 miners died without access to crucial life-saving equipment.
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Fear Pays: Chertoff, Ex-Security Officials Slammed For Cashing In On Government Experience

Fear Pays: Chertoff, Ex-Security Officials Slammed For Cashing In On Government Experience

HuffPost — After last month's plot to send bombs from Yemen to the United States aboard a cargo plane, former U.S. Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff's whiskerless visage was ubiquitous on cable news. Solemnly warning that the nation needed stronger security procedures, Chertoff patiently repeated his talking points on ABC News's "World News Tonight", "Fox and Friends", CNBC's "Squawk Box" and Bloomberg TV.
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Mr. Murder

Mr. Murder

The New York Times — It was the third game of the 1986 World Series, with the Mets drubbing the Red Sox, scoring four runs in the first inning behind the strong pitching of Bob Ojeda, when the 110th Precinct got the call. A woman was alarmed because there was no answer at her brother's co-op apartment in Elmhurst, Queens.
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