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11 Nov 2026Opinion
Response · Corruption & Institutional Failure

Bereaved families expose Parliament’s failure to make inquests produce reform

On Prison News: Bereaved families tell MPs inquests are adversarial and lessons go unlearned

Britain’s problem is not a shortage of findings but the absence of a reliable system that turns institutional failure into change.

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11 Nov 2026Opinion
Note · Health & Affordability

Medical debt is a failure of protection, not personal responsibility

Medical debt in the United States should be treated as a structural failure of financial protection, not as a collection of private misfortunes.

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11 Nov 2026Opinion
Response · Work & Wages

Cheyenne Riggs and the multiple-job economy America calls prosperity

On NBC Bay Area: Millions of workers are juggling multiple jobs to afford America

Millions of Americans are working more than one job because employment alone no longer reliably provides basic financial security.

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11 Nov 2026Opinion
Response · Cost of Living & Housing

New York’s homeless pupils need more than a school attendance strategy

On Chalkbeat: 1 in 8 NYC public school students experienced homelessness last year, report finds

New York’s student homelessness figures expose a housing failure that schools cannot repair while shelter placements keep children far from their classrooms.

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11 Nov 2026Opinion
Response · Cost of Living & Housing

North Yorkshire’s temporary housing record tests the council’s optimism

On thescarboroughnews.co.uk: Record number of households living in temporary accommodation across North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire Council should judge its housing response by whether households reach permanent homes, not by fewer requests for help alone.

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11 Nov 2026Opinion
Response · Corruption & Institutional Failure

Britain’s child sexual abuse inquiry needs a timetable, not another promise

On The Survivors Trust: Press Release: Four Years On, Government Must Deliver on IICSA Recommendations - The Survivors Trust

The legal challenge over IICSA shows why governments should be judged on which inquiry reforms they deliver, not which ones they accept.

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10 Nov 2026Opinion
Note · Health & Affordability

Medical Debt Is a Structural Failure, Not a Personal Misfortune

Medical debt in the United States is a mass, structural condition that reaches insured as well as uninsured households, not a story of individual misfortune.

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10 Nov 2026Opinion
Note · Corruption & Institutional Failure

Britain Investigates Failure Better Than It Prevents It

Britain’s public inquiries document institutional failure in exhaustive detail, but their recommendations are implemented slowly and partially, leaving the same failures free to recur.

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10 Nov 2026Opinion
Response · Cost of Living & Housing

Richmond’s Ten-Year Lease Plan Turns Family Homelessness Into a Permanent Council Cost

On Richmond Online: Richmond Plans Ten-Year Leases as Homeless Housing Bill Nears £10m

Richmond’s proposed long leases are a pragmatic response to a housing system that is shifting the cost of family homelessness onto local government.

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Income, deprivation, and material hardship in the world's wealthiest countries.

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Health & Affordability

Access to care, medical debt, and the cost of staying well.

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Work & Wages

Unemployment, insecure work, and pay that no longer covers the basics.

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Education

Unequal schooling, student debt, and the narrowing paths to opportunity.

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Rents, homelessness, energy bills, and the prices households cannot avoid.

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Corruption & Institutional Failure

When public institutions fail the people they exist to serve.

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