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The world and others simply reflect back to us what we are seeing, not what is there. It is as if wherever we look, there are only mirrors that show us pictures of ourselves.
The Yamas & Niyamas
Deborah Adele
In the 1990s and early 2000s, commercial banks were using lending models for home mortgages that assigned zero probability to large declines in housing prices.2 Housing prices had never before fallen as far and as fast as they did beginning in 2007. But that’s what happened.
Naked Statistics
Charles Wheelan
The Oregon Department of Transportation, for instance, has reportedly identified the wildly controversial Rose Quarter Freeway project — which has already faced significant federal scrutiny for its environmental impacts on communities of color, since it may as much as double the width of Interstate 5 — as an “excellent candidate for an IIJA RCP grant,” thanks to the late-stage addition of a highway cover.
Advocates Warn ‘Reconnecting Communities’ Program Could Actually Expand Highways
Kea Wilson
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