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Aug 23, 2023

How Artificial Intelligence Might Prevent You From Getting Hired

AI-based tools are used throughout hiring processes, increasing the odds of discrimination in the workplace.
AI-based tools are used throughout hiring processes, increasing the odds of discrimination in the workplace.
Illustration of robot examining potential employees with magnifying glass.
Illustration of robot examining potential employees with magnifying glass.
Aug 16, 2023

Know Your Rights: Back to School Edition

With the start of the new school year, it is the perfect time to review your student rights.

By Lilah Jacobs

With the start of the new school year, it is the perfect time to review your student rights.

By Lilah Jacobs
Free Julius Jones Protest
Free Julius Jones Protest
Aug 14, 2023

Hotel Accessibility Reaches the Supreme Court

When a hotel fails to provide accessibility features on its website, prospective guests with disabilities can’t know if it is safe and usable. This is discrimination.
When a hotel fails to provide accessibility features on its website, prospective guests with disabilities can’t know if it is safe and usable. This is discrimination.
A wheelchair accessibility sign in front of the Supreme Court.
A wheelchair accessibility sign in front of the Supreme Court.
Aug 10, 2023

Visualizing the Racial Wealth Gap

From homeownership to income, systemic inequities perpetuate disparities in wealth.
From homeownership to income, systemic inequities perpetuate disparities in wealth.
Close up of a mortgage application and a pen.
Close up of a mortgage application and a pen.
Aug 10, 2023

Racism by Design: The Building of Interstate 81

The United States' interstate highway system is structural racism in action: an intentional government program that damaged Black lives and communities for generations.
The United States' interstate highway system is structural racism in action: an intentional government program that damaged Black lives and communities for generations.
A collage of black faces with an elevated highway on a blue background.
A collage of black faces with an elevated highway on a blue background.
Aug 7, 2023

Unchecked Growth: Private Prison Corporations and Immigration Detention, Three Years Into the Biden Administration

In July, more than 90 percent of the average 30,000 people held daily in ICE detention were housed in private facilities, as private corporation revenues from immigrant detention soar.
In July, more than 90 percent of the average 30,000 people held daily in ICE detention were housed in private facilities, as private corporation revenues from immigrant detention soar.
Protestors march in front of the ICE Company, The Geo Group building, demanding the end of private prisons.
Protestors march in front of the ICE Company, The Geo Group building, demanding the end of private prisons.