Miners block coal from leaving Pike County after weeks without pay

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“Somebody’s gotta stand up”: Miners block coal from leaving Pike County after weeks without pay

About a dozen miners are still on the tracks in Kimper Tuesday, enduring the rainy weather as they demand the pay they are owed. Pike County miners are blocking a train loaded with coal from leaving a mine in Kimper.

About 50 employees claim they have not been paid since mid-December.

"I'm starving. I about lost everything I own and I'm tired of it," said one miner. "Somebody's gotta stand up to these guys and I guess it's us."

Around 12:30 p.m. miners said they could see a pay stub for two weeks' pay show up in their work accounts, but the money has not arrived in their bank accounts yet.

Planet Money : NPR

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Moving Beyond GDP : Planet Money : NPR

The economists, who were speaking at a panel called "Beyond GDP," made clear they think that's a huge mistake. GDP misses a lot. It doesn't, for instance, count the cooking, cleaning, and childrearing done in households. It doesn't count the value of people's health or a clean environment. It doesn't pay attention to the distribution of income or wealth. It doesn't pay attention to quality of life.

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Studies Find Redlining Linked To More Heat, Fewer Trees In Cities Nationwide : NPR

In cities around the country, if you want to understand the history of a neighborhood, you might want to do the same thing you'd do to measure human health: Check its temperature.

That's what a group of researchers did, and they found that neighborhoods with higher temperatures were often the same ones subjected to discriminatory, race-based housing practices nearly a century ago.