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United States of Inequality

  • Laurell Beck delivers bagged lunches and breakfasts to a school family member, March 16, 2020, at Tracy Elementary School in Millcreek Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania. Beck is part of the school's cafeteria staff. On Monday, the Millcreek Township School District began providing meals to their school families at five schools in the district, as part of their coronavirus planning. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, on March 13, 2020, closed all schools in the state for two weeks. (Christopher Millette/Erie Times-News via AP)

    ‘The sleepers are waking up’: hope for Democrats in city that backed Trump

    President Trump’s re-election plan had relied on bringing jobs back to cities like Erie, Pennsylvania, which has had its hopes of economic resurgence rocked by the pandemic
  • Trump visited Battle Creek in December, the night he was impeached. Over the past decade, Battle Creek’s recovery from the 2008-09 financial crash has lagged behind the nation’s.

    Trump failed to revive America's 'cereal town' – will it vote for him come November?

    Battle Creek, the once-thriving home of Kellogg’s, went to Trump after voting twice for Obama. But enthusiasm for the president seems to be waning
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    'I had breakdowns': recovering from the 2018 government shutdown as another looms

    Oyawele Dumas’s reduced earnings as a childcare provider marred her credit and forced her to hustle for other jobs
  • ‘Ideas of economic change that were looked at as crazy just two years ago are now a part of regular conversation.’

    If Americans are better off than a decade ago, why doesn’t it feel that way?

    A growing number of Americans work hard but aren’t getting their basic needs met – but 2020 candidates seem poised to tackle economic inequality
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