Upshot: Play With Our Subway Tool

2019年7月8日星期一

Upshot: Play With Our Subway Tool

Also: A better 'busing' question

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How Unpredictable Is Your Subway Commute? We'll Show You

By JOSH KATZ AND KEVIN QUEALY

A detailed exploration of an important but overlooked part of commuting in the city: variability.

Schoolchildren in Huntersville, N.C., a suburb of Charlotte, in 1999. Two years later, a court order ended a comprehensive desegregration plan in the Charlotte school district that included busing.

'Do You Support Busing?' Is Not the Best Question

By EMILY BADGER

Issues of educational inequality raised by a 1970s-era practice remain relevant today, but language can obscure what's really at stake.

The New Health Care

Medicare Advantage provider directories are notably inaccurate, research shows, making it hard for patients to know what they are getting into.

Even Researchers Don't Know Which Doctors Medicare Advantage Covers

By AUSTIN FRAKT

A study found Google was more accurate than the program's physician directories.

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Which Democrats Are Leading the 2020 Presidential Race?

By JASMINE C. LEE, ANNIE DANIEL, REBECCA LIEBERMAN, BLACKI MIGLIOZZI AND ALEXANDER BURNS

There are more than 20 Democrats running for president. Here's the latest data to track how the candidates are doing.

The Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala., celebrates the city's role as an aerospace hub. Although the unemployment rate is low in the area, so are the chances of escaping poverty.

Southerners, Facing Big Odds, Believe in a Path Out of Poverty

By PATRICIA COHEN

Moving from poverty to wealth from one generation to the next is least likely in the South, but optimism there is greatest, tinged with political views.

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Trump Suggests Executive Order on Drug Prices, With a Scope That Is Unclear

By MARGOT SANGER-KATZ

He may be talking about a pilot program that would apply to only a small subset of drugs.

Among the striking disparities: There are more prescriptions for drugs to treat mental illness in wealthy neighborhoods, while in poorer ones, there are more for H.I.V. and hepatitis C.

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The Prescription Drugs That Rich People Buy

By KEVIN QUEALY AND MARGOT SANGER-KATZ

Though the wealthy tend to be healthier and fill fewer prescriptions over all, they're likelier to purchase medications for some serious diseases.

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