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Jan 17

Make Companies Publish More Salary Stats for Their Roles

These stats should include every salary’s average, standard deviation, and median for the employees currently in that role — In May 2022, all employers in the City of New York with more than 50 employees became legally required to publish salary ranges for the roles they’re hiring for. The range for the listed maximum and minimum salary would extend from the lowest salary to the highest salary that the…

Pay Transparency

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Pay Transparency

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Feb 27, 2021

‘Chicago Advocate Legal’ Reimagines Family and Housing Law to Bridge the Justice Gap

Chlece Neal’s client was a 14-year-old father seeking a shared custody agreement with his infant’s 16-year-old mother. The 8th grader wasn’t eligible for assistance from Legal Aid because his family’s annual income exceeded 125% of the federal poverty line, about $30k a year for a family of four. …

Chicago Advocate Legal

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Chicago Advocate Legal

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May 12, 2019

A Week in My Life Volunteering at YanaCocha Wildlife Reserve in Ecuador (with Pictures)

Day 1: Monkeys! I’m awake in my cabin in the Amazon rainforest at 6:00am. The relentless downpour on our tin roof on top of the high humidity and excitement of being here has me up before dawn. So much happened yesterday that I know if I don’t write it down now I’ll forget…

Animals

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A Week in My Life Volunteering at YanaCocha Wildlife Reserve in Ecuador in Pictures
A Week in My Life Volunteering at YanaCocha Wildlife Reserve in Ecuador in Pictures
Animals

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Mar 17, 2019

The Democratic Party Needs to Adopt Ranked-Choice Voting in its Primary

The Democratic Party is too powerful. In the last century it has always selected one of the two candidates voters can choose for president. However, voters don’t directly elect the Democratic nominee. …

Politics

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The Democratic Party Needs to Adopt Ranked-Choice Voting in its Primary
The Democratic Party Needs to Adopt Ranked-Choice Voting in its Primary
Politics

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Sep 8, 2018

Democrats Still Aim Too Low. They Need a ‘small d’ democratic Platform

In a 1995 interview for his book Dreams From My Father, Barack Obama, then a Lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, called for a society based on collectivism and the common good. He argued not just for the Democratic Party’s popular policies of the day but also a…

Small D Democracy

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Democrats Still Aim Too Low. They Need a ‘small d’ democratic Platform
Democrats Still Aim Too Low. They Need a ‘small d’ democratic Platform
Small D Democracy

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Sep 3, 2018

Instead of Asking If Whites Can Experience Racism We Should Address the Cynicism Behind this Question

There’s a semantic argument replaying across the country in dive bars and over Thanksgiving dinner tables wherein a perceived more woke minority attempts to convince a white person they cannot experience racism because racism is defined as a historically disempowered group being discriminated against based on their race and the…

Racism

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Instead of Asking If Whites Can Experience Racism We Should Address the Cynicism Behind this…
Instead of Asking If Whites Can Experience Racism We Should Address the Cynicism Behind this…
Racism

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Sep 3, 2018

A White Guy Told Me Being Called ‘Privileged’ Is Akin to the N-word.

I like to play and watch video games online. For years now, I’ve followed the Twitch stream of one of my favorite gamers, a white man whom I would watch play online for hours because he was arguably the best in the world at a game I enjoy. Every day…

Privilege

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Privilege

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Kai McKinnon

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Software Engineer and aspiring fantasy writer living in Brooklyn

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