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Amber Ruffin started as a writer for Late Night with Seth Meyers before becoming the first black woman to host a late night talk show. Can she answer out three questions about Roughin' It?
Sam Pizzigati flags a taxpayer-subsidized insurance program that keeps wealthy people flowing into Florida's most climate change-threatened coastal areas. By Sam Pizzigati Inequality.org Hurricane Ian has already faded from the headlines, but local officials and insurers are still tallying
Addressing heat and transportation correlation The heat. It’s never been hotter in our lifetimes.
Sam Pizzigati says inequality is missing from the coverage of what's driving the mercury higher. By Sam Pizzigati Inequality.org The heat. Never been hotter in our lifetimes. This past spring the mercury nearly hit 124 in the Pakistani city of Jacobabad, “just below,” notes science writ
Contributing Writer Every week, millions of us walk into a Walgreens drugstore without giving it a second thought. Maybe we should. Walgreens perfectly encapsulates the long-term economic trends of the Trump years: top corporate executives pocketing immense paychecks at the expense of their workers. At Walgreens, workers start at just $10 an hour. No chain store empire employing essential workers pays less. And no retail giant in the United States has given its workers less of a pandemic hazard pay bump — just 18 cents an hour, according to Brookings analysts Molly Kinder and Laura Stateler...