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1. Meet a simple but powerful tool to help homeless people feel human.
By Sybile Penhirin in NationSwell
2. How America’s truckers are fighting human trafficking.
By Frank Morris at KCUR
3. How rehab can do patients more harm than good.
By Marshall Allen at ProPublica
4. How a near-future hack could take down New York.
By Reeves Wiedeman in New York Magazine
5. Close the digital divide: Put broadband in all HUD-funded housing.
By Eric Null and Kathleen Watson at New America

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