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Topic: cost of living

Protesters attend the No Kings march on Boston Common on Oct. 18, 2025. (Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

How "No Kings" missed the mark

Austin Sarat
Logistics and transportation of Container Cargo ship (Getty Images/Thatree Thitivongvaroon)

Will there be more food shortages soon?

Sarah Schiffling, Nikolaos Valantasis Kanellos - The Conversation
EMTs rush a patient to the emergency room at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on March 24, 2020, as the number of confirmed Massachusetts cases of coronavirus soars to near 5,000. (Stan Grossfeld/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

The secrets of the emergency room

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Projected design for new student housing at University of California, Santa Cruz / Strike picket signs (UC Santa Cruz/AP Photo/Salon)

Wildcat student strike escalates

Nicole Karlis
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UC Santa Cruz sign (University of California Santa Cruz website / economics.ucsc.edu)

"Do I do research or pay rent?"

Nicole Karlis

Craft beer poised for a labor movement

Nicole Karlis
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Why Middle America offers more

Valerie Vande Panne - Independent Media Institute
The Bohemian club's mascot owl. (Wikimedia)

Bohemian Club workers on strike

Nicole Karlis
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living disabled

Sophie Mitra, Daniel Mont, Hoolda Kim, Michael Palmer, Nora Groce - The Conversation
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/g/Liliana+Ballen'>Liliana Ballen</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

The promise of the tiny house

Lorraine Chow - Alternet
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The most expensive U.S. cities

Taylor Link
Bill de Blasio (Reuters/Keith Bedford/<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-658339p1.html'>Vadim Georgiev</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

The rent's still too damn high

Henry Grabar
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Randy Nelson
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