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Elections 2020
Post office's financial woes partly Congress' doing
by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Aug 17, 2020
Congress passed a law in 2006 that requires the Postal Service to prepay health benefits for retirees. It's had trouble doing that.
California blackouts reflect a complicated supply-and-demand problem
by Andy Uhler
Aug 17, 2020
The load can overwhelm the electric grid during heat waves, but this summer's outages have raised new questions.
The student debt crisis hits Black Americans the hardest
by Kai Ryssdal and Daisy Palacios
Aug 17, 2020
How systemic racism fueled the student debt crisis for Black borrowers.