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  • The Eagles of the Desert

    The Eagles of the Desert–Los Aguilas del Desierto—are a group of volunteers. They are construction workers,  maids, gardeners, veterans, immigrants themselves who for the last 6 years gather monthly to comb the desert along the Mexican border in search of bodies, the bodies of those who tried to cross into the US but did not…

  • Dental Care and Former Inmates

    An inmate gets freed from prison, he or she has no job, no money, a prison record, often poor or no skills—and bad teeth. There’s a stigma about bad teeth which compounds reentry into society. It makes it much harder to feel natural in an interview and to be able to get a job. 74…

  • Private Equity Funds and Those in Need

    Say you get a check in the mail and it says just sign me. You ignore it then some emergency crops up and you can’t cover it and then you remember the check. That’s one way companies owned by Private Equity Funds make money. In this case a company like   Mariner Finance  is  owned by…

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