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#  IMPORTANT READS

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### Hurricane Harvey: Trump’s Cuts are Now in the Eye of the Storm

Written by Judith Lewis Mernit on August 31 2017.

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  [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Aug-2017/070m.png) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13917:neurodiversity-workforce-brigade-a-new-employment-vision-for-adults-with-mental-conditions&catid=9)Written by Michael Bernick on August 31 2017. Posted in [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=9).

## [Neurodiversity Workforce Brigade: A New Employment Vision for Adults with Mental Conditions](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13917:neurodiversity-workforce-brigade-a-new-employment-vision-for-adults-with-mental-conditions&catid=9)

All of its members previously were unemployed. Most were on one of the government benefit programs, Social Security Disability Income (SSDI) or Suppl…

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Written by Jeff Allen on August 31 2017.

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Written by Michael Cohen on August 31 2017.

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Written by Chris Hedges on August 28 2017.

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Written by Richard Lee Abrams on August 28 2017.

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Written by Michael Cohen on August 28 2017.

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Written by Leonard Isenberg on August 28 2017.

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Written by Kevin J. Suscavage on August 28 2017.

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Written by Doug Epperhart on August 24 2017.

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Written by Richard Lee Abrams on August 24 2017.

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Written by Stephen Cooper on August 24 2017.

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Written by Jim Hightower on August 24 2017.

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Written by James Preston Allen on August 21 2017.

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Written by Sonali Kolhatkar on August 21 2017.

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Written by Paul Hatfield on August 21 2017.

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Written by Jimmy Kimmel on August 21 2017.

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Written by Richard Lee Abrams on August 21 2017.

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Written by A.C. Thompson, ProPublica, and Karim Hajj on August 17 2017.

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Written by Olivia Alperstein on August 17 2017.

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