10/19/2020: Yelp adds alerts for businesses accused of racism - Pluto's White-Capped Mountains Not Due to Snow

 

Today's Article: Yelp adds alerts for businesses accused of racism
From: CNN.com
Readability Score: 12.5

Should social media be used to monitor businesses and alert consumers of bad actors?

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Readability Score: 8.5

8/18/2020: A Bad Deal for American Industry? - During A Lonely New York Summer, Lincoln Center Brings Music To Essential Workers

Today's Article: A Bad Deal for American Industry?
From: Mercatus.org
Readability Score: 15.2

Do tariffs help or hurt industries? Consumers? Who pays? Who benefits?

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Readability Score: 8.6

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8/30/2017: NYC law that makes dog-sitting illegal without kennel license triggers rage from pet lovers - econlife – How Transparency Transformed Food Shopping

Today's Article: NYC law that makes dog-sitting illegal without kennel license triggers rage from pet lovers
From: NY Daily News
Readability Score: 9.9

Pet lovers are barking mad over a little-known city rule that makes dog-sitting illegal in New York. 

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Today's Alternate Article: econlife – How Transparency Transformed Food Shopping
Readability Score: 7.8

A century ago, if you didn't grow all of your own food, you bought it from the vendors at a public market, a small grocer, and maybe a local peddler. At the public market you mingled with a mixture of barrels, boxes, dead animals and chicken coops. Very different, the grocer's counter separated you from the meat, produce and dry goods.

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1/23/2017: For Some Workers, Pay Raise Comes With Loss of Cheap Child Care - Abducted at Birth and Found 18 Years Later, Woman Tries On New Identity

Today's Article: For Some Workers, Pay Raise Comes With Loss of Cheap Child Care
From: Los Angeles Times
Readability Score: 10.8

That’s just one of the likely ripple effects a rising wage will have for California businesses, their employees and their customers.

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Readability Score: 8.7

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12/1/2016: China to World: We Don’t Need Your Factories Anymore - Grandma Who Promised to Feed Stranger Via Wrong Text Keeps Promise

Today's Article: China to World: We Don’t Need Your Factories Anymore
From: Wall Street Journal
Readability Score: 11.1

Chinese manufacturers once bought high-tech materials from overseas firms. Rising expertise means they now shop locally, altering global trade

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Readability Score: 7.5

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