Social Issues

The importance of mobile homes as affordable housing
Ten mobile home parks in the region have closed in the past 25 years, but no new parks have opened, according to a Met Council report. These parks represent an important source of affordable housing, and their closures disproportionately affect residents of color.
Fines for meat industry's safety problems are 'embarrassingly low'
Slaughterhouses, while safer than decades ago, are some of the country's most hazardous workplaces. They are fined by the government for safety violations, but those fines may not be big enough.
Who gets to be 'hapa'?
Many young mixed-raced Asian-Americans embrace the Hawaiian word "hapa" to describe their identity. But are they legitimizing a slur, engaging in appropriation, or just making an old word new?