Author: dientedeleon21

Research Director Petra Hurtado, PhD, shares APA’s approach to preparing for uncertainty around COVID-19.
— Read on planning.org/blog/9198765/covid-19-communities-and-the-planning-profession/

Anthony Fauci said COVID-19’s impact on black Americans was shining “a very bright light on some of the real weaknesses and foibles in our society.”
— Read on www.businessinsider.com/fauci-covid-19-shows-unacceptable-disparities-for-african-americans-2020-4

An analysis shows the Detroit mortgage remains anemic at best, and, at worst, nonexistent in large parts of the city, and is a drag on recovery.
— Read on amp.freep.com/amp/3165381002

Ten ways to keep planning during the COVID-19 pandemic as compiled by APA’s Michigan Chapter.
— Read on planning.org/blog/9198752/why-planning-is-still-important-10-things-planners-can-do-now/

America’s underclass is becoming more visible in the coronavirus crisis.
— Read on slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/04/essential-workers-deaths-underclass.html

Being Black in America Is a Health Risk. It’s Time for Reparations. – VICE
— Read on www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/5973yq/the-healthcare-case-for-reparations-hr40

Blog : Interaction Institute for Social Change
— Read on interactioninstitute.org/blog/

An Economic Bill of Rights for the 21st Century
— Read on prospect.org/api/amp/economy/economic-bill-rights-21st-century/

In 2017 alone, 158,000 Americans died from what Princeton economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton deem “deaths of despair” — a disturbing triumvirate of suicide, alcohol and opioid-related deaths that primarily have ravaged the middle-aged poor and working-class whites.To put these numbers in stark terms, “That is the equivalent of three, full 737 MAXs falling out of the sky
— Read on www.commondreams.org/views/2020/03/19/deaths-despair-and-psychological-wages-whiteness

In Maisy Card’s vivid debut, These Ghosts Are Family, spirits expose long-held secrets within fractured families and nations alike.
— Read on www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/03/these-ghosts-are-family-haunted-spirit-colonialism/607765/