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  • Nikki Massie and her parents when she completed her bachelor's degree.
    Courtesy Nikki Massie

    Years ago, one woman put college on hold because she couldn’t afford it. Now she faces a hard choice to keep history from repeating itself. Plus: What will college even look like this fall?

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  • It’s expensive to get arrested
    JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images

    A teenager protesting police brutality lands in jail, and we try to understand the tricky business of bail.

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  • ![Some of the first recipients wait to receive benefits at the division office of the State Employment Service in San Francisco, California, 1938.
    Library of Congress

    Millions of Americans who are out of work don’t receive unemployment benefits. That’s by design. An episode from The Uncertain Hour’s pop-up season A History of Now.

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  • When we started talking with Mayán Alvarado-Goldberg and Mahta Ahmed, she was planning to go to Northwestern on a full-tuition scholarship, and he was applying for the super-competitive engineering program at UCLA.
    Courtesy: Mayán Alvarado-Goldberg

    When you’re 17 or 18, you make choices that can dictate the course of your life. Making those choices during a pandemic is even harder.

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  • Our parents’ debts (from Terrible, Thanks for Asking)
    Courtesy: Terrible, Thanks for Asking

    This week, we’re featuring one of our favorite episodes of one of our favorite podcasts.

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  • After his exoneration and release from prison, Kevin Harrington had to spend two weeks self-quarantining at a hotel.
    Courtesy Daniel Harrington

    Kevin Harrington was exonerated last month after spending 17 years in prison for a first-degree murder conviction. He and his family are overjoyed, but the coronavirus pandemic means freedom looks a little different right now.

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  • Online shopping doesn't hit quite the same.
    Spencer Platt/Getty Images

    Is a global pandemic the best or worst time to confront a shopping addiction and pay off a dozen credit cards? For this woman, it’s been a bit of both.

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  • A worker decontaminates an ambulance.
    John Moore/Getty Images

    Danni Askini fought cancer for 18 months before getting COVID-19. Their focus was on surviving, not the cost of care. That didn’t make the bill any easier to take.

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  • What it’s like getting an abortion in Texas right now
    Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images

    The clock is ticking for one college student after she finds out she’s pregnant in the middle of a pandemic, in a state that’s trying to restrict abortion.

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  • Zoom therapy in a pandemic
    Courtesy: Megan McCoy

    How do I keep from fighting with my partner about money? What do I say to a friend who’s just lost a job? This week we get a little therapy.

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