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...Patti Waldmeir reports how it’s gone down in Chicago....
...“I’ve never seen so many people in the woods,” Jeramie Hotz, a Wisconsin deer hunter-cum-advertising manager, tells Patti....
...Racial equity is key in efforts to revive Detroit Patti Waldmeir has witnessed many false starts when it comes to the revival of her hometown Detroit....
...Treating the growing numbers of unvaccinated patients is fuelling compassion fatigue and resentment among US health workers, writes Patti Waldmeir....
...There’s a lot riding on where Chicago goes next, writes columnist Patti Waldmeir, and two factors will help determine its fate: remote working and urban crime....
...(NYMag, Miami Herald) Jobs, jobs, jobs — the pandemic worker shortage continues I assumed many Americans would struggle to find jobs after lockdown; instead, jobs are struggling to find people, writes Patti...
...But despite promising to give “social equity applicants” an advantage in winning licences, Illinois still has no majority black-owned cannabis dispensaries, writes Patti Waldmier....
...For many, these pandemic learnings have affected attitudes to procreation, writes Patti Waldmeir....
...Employers are in for a wave of post-pandemic litigation as lawyers predict a jump in pandemic protection and discrimination lawsuits, writes Patti Waldmeir....
...The town is hardly alone in this disparity, but it is seeking to bring about some justice with a reparations programme, explains Patti Waldmeir....
...parlours in Georgia this month, many adopted Asian Americans have begun expressing, and sometimes admitting to themselves for the first time, the angst of being people of colour raised by white people, writes Patti...
...(FT, WSJ) Some employers are using Covid-19 as an excuse to bring back younger workers from furlough faster than older ones, writes Patti Waldmeir. Follow our live blog for the latest....
...But now it’s time to move beyond the jaw-jaw, writes Patti Waldmeir....
...Half a century later, the diagnosis is the same, writes Patti Waldmier, the US needs to spend more money preventing violence and less on catching or punishing people afterwards....
...Emily Goldberg provides a guide to her four favourite bike routes through the New York borough....
...And the desire to escape those dreadful realities appears to have fuelled a fantasy boom in middle America, writes Patti Waldmeir....
...Patti Waldmeir says Americans are lamenting a holiday this year that mostly won’t happen....
...But in the land of “Trump Democrats” jubilation was not the order of the day, writes Patti Waldmeir....
...(FT) For white Americans, anti-racism training has never been more necessary A ‘racial healing circle’ in Chicago holds lessons for how to discuss white privilege, writes Patti Waldmeir....
...The Supreme Court may be less a decisive factor for Midwest voters than racial unrest, Patti Waldmeir writes. (FT) America’s history war Was the US founded in 1776 or 1619?...
...(FT) A new era of US hunger Patti Waldmeir started her FT career covering famine in Africa in the 1980s. She did not expect to be writing about hunger in her own homeland 40 years later....
...(FT) Youngest American voters dislike the choice in front of themAmerica’s youngest voters could hold the key to whether the US elects its oldest president in history in November, says Patti Waldmeir....
...The crisis has led to a sharp rise in addiction, as isolation, anxiety, joblessness — and stimulus cash — have led to increased drug for many, writes Patti Waldmeir....
...Patti Waldmeir reflects on her promise to emerge from lockdown “a better version of myself”....
...in the spotlight in Tuesday night’s keynote address as the party looked to appeal to young voters — a group who could hold the key to whether the US elects its oldest president in history in November, Patti...
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