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Interesting Things Around the Internet

• We’re #37!!!!
• Barbara Ehrenreich and Dedrick Muhammad detail the recession’s racial divide.
  

  But you didn’t need a dodgy mortgage to be wiped out by the subprime crisis and ensuing recession. Black unemployment is now at 15.1 percent, compared with 8.9 percent for whites. In New York City, black unemployment has been rising four times as fast as that of whites. By 2010, according to Lawrence Mishel of the Economic Policy Institute, 40 percent of African-Americans nationwide will have endured patches of unemployment or underemployment.

• Three health care horror stories, from the mouths of the people who lived them.
• AFL-CIO Now covers Working America’s presentation to the AFL-CIO convention, going on now in Pittsburgh.
• Nate Silver explains a health care poll from the Washington Post—or anyway, he explains some of what they did wrong.