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    Why are people hungry in North Carolina?

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    One in eight individuals in the state were food insecure last year — food insecurity is defined as not having reliable access to your next meal. According to the North Carolina Department of Housing and Human Services, 56 percent of public-school children are eligible for free or reduced lunch, and one in five children face hunger on a daily basis.
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    London house of McCartney robbed

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    The police so far have no suspects or detainees. Militiamen only reported that they managed to find traces of a break-in.

    It is noted that in general the house of the musician costs about 12.6 million dollars. Previously, such incidents have already happened.

    Why life expectancy in America is down again

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    These patterns suggest that while changing social and economic conditions may be one contributing factor in alcohol abuse, drug addiction and suicide, other factors are at work.

    Christopher Ruhm, an economist at the University of Virginia reckons that, over the long term, economic conditions alone explain less than 10% of the increase in drug-mortality rates. He points to the importance of public health efforts to control the opioid epidemic.
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    17-year-old Walmart employee quits over store intercom: ‘Nobody should work here, ever’

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    The teen also claims that Walmart managers attempt to cut costs by reducing full-time associates to part-time workers, something that the behemoth retailer has been accused of in the past. “I’m sick of all the b——-, bogus write-ups and my job,” Racicot concluded. “F— management, f— this job and f—- Walmart.”
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    Truckers Spend the Holidays Driving Too Much for Too Little Pay

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    “You might work a 14-hour day and you only drove 150-200 miles. If you only get paid for the miles, you don’t make anything,” said Wood. “The money is so unpredictable. You could get $400 one week and $65 the next week. You just don’t know.”
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    Britain’s Homeless Crisis

    Under the suffocating shadow of economic austerity, homelessness in Britain is increasing, poverty and inequality deepening. Since the Conservative party came to power via a coalition government in 2010, then as a minority government in 2015, homelessness has risen exponentially.
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    Borrowing From Big Tobacco’s Playbook, Johnson & Johnson Knew About Asbestos in Baby Powder for Decades: Reuters

    A Reuters investigation published Friday charges that Johnson & Johnson, a multi-billion dollar company known for its healthcare products, knew for decades that its iconic talcum baby powder “was sometimes tainted with carcinogenic asbestos,” but concealed the information from regulators and the public.
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Facing poverty, academics turn to sex work and sleeping in cars

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“I feel committed to being the person who’s there to help millennials, the next generation, go on to become critical thinkers,” she said. “And I’m really good at it, and I really like it. And it’s heartbreaking to me it doesn’t pay what I feel it should.”

Sex work is one of the more unusual ways that adjuncts have avoided living in poverty, and perhaps even homelessness. A quarter of part-time college academics (many of whom are adjuncts, though it’s not uncommon for adjuncts to work 40 hours a week or more) are said to be enrolled in public assistance programs such as Medicaid.

They resort to food banks and Goodwill, and there is even an adjuncts’ cookbook that shows how to turn items like beef scraps, chicken bones and orange peel into meals.

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Cinderella is homeless, Ariel ‘can’t afford to live on land’: Disney under fire for pay

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“Disney, we feel, is a contributor to the homeless problem here in Anaheim,” said protest organizer Jeanine Robbins, a longtime local resident. “There are Disney employees who live on the street. They live in their cars. They live in unstable housing.”

Occasionally, there are consequences of the most tragic kind.

Amid an unprecedented regional homelessness crisis, there are almost 4,800 people experiencing homelessness in Orange County, where Anaheim is located, on any given night. More than half can be found on the streets or in other places unfit for habitation. It is unclear exactly how many are Disney employees, but it should perhaps come as no surprise that some face challenges.

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Jews in Texas Already in Hiding From Neo-Nazis; Holiday Service Held at Secret Location

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Last month In Charlottesville, Virginia, there was a torchlight parade that passed in front of a college town synagogue, home of Congregation Beth Israel, with the marchers chanting “Jews will not replace us!” and “Blood and soil!” Some of the marchers had long guns. Those chants were recycled from Hitler’s original Nazis, as was the torchlight parade.

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