Article selections for February 23, 2019
Asians and the “model minority” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/29/the-real-reason-americans-stopped-spitting-on-asian-americans-and-started-praising-them/?utm_term=.521a11e16eb4 http://mattbruenig.com/2017/04/15/asian-poverty-varies-a-lot-by-group/ Groups where immigrants are mostly low-skill, low-education have high poverty rates; groups wehre immigrants are mostly high-skill, high-education have low poverty rates Health care https://jacobinmag.com/2018/06/veterans-administration-health-care-privatization VA offers higher quality care than Steve Jobs got https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/januaryfebruary-2005/the-best-care-anywhere-3/ https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/1/25/14375776/pay-for-performance-doctors-bonuses Eugenics https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/california-targeted-latinas-forced-sterilization-180968567/ 60,000 Americans were sterilized by state eugenics programs. Latinas were […]