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The Work That Pays Is the Work That Fits in the Register
The incentive schedule is a laminated sheet and I have carried a copy in my bag for eleven years. It lists what a female community health volunteer in Nepal is paid for, per event. A referral for a…
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The Best Labour Number Has Never Been on a Front Page
In the month everyone was arguing about whether the labour market had cracked, the job-to-job transition rate — the share of employed people who moved directly to a different employer without a spe…
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No Scotland, No Party
Twenty-eight years. That's how long Scotland had been away from a World Cup, which means that when we finally qualified — Hampden in November, Kenny McLean chipping the Danish goalkeeper from the halfway line while my father made a sound
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The List Was Written in June and the Election Was in November
The exit poll asked which issue mattered most to your vote and offered seven options. I have the instrument in front of me. The seven were drafted in June, tested in July, and fielded in November, …
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He Changed His Mind and the Room Did Not Know What to Do
In April a man in the Thursday group at the county library said that he had thought about what we discussed in March, and that he now believed the opposite of what he had argued for two hours. He s…
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Kerala Buys Coconut Oil While the Trees Behind the House Go Unpicked
There are nine coconut palms on my aunt's land outside Alappuzha and they have not been harvested in three years. They are healthy. They fruit. The nuts fall when they fall, which is dangerous, and…
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She Was Not Non-Compliant, She Had Two Correct Instructions
The discharge packet was six pages. Page two said, in a box, HOLD warfarin until INR checked. Page five, in the medication list generated by a different system, said warfarin 5 mg, take one tablet …
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The Wire Transfer My Mother Cannot Read
The receipt is a thermal-paper slip about the length of my hand, and by the time it reaches my mother in Lamjung the ink has already started to fade. She keeps them in a biscuit tin anyway. Nine ye…
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I Campaigned for the Commission and the Map Barely Moved
I knocked doors for an independent redistricting commission. I wrote a explainer about it that got passed around. When it passed I was genuinely happy, and then I spent two cycles looking at the ma…
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Four Bedrooms for a Family That Is Never in the Country at Once
On the road up from the highway there are now eleven houses of a kind that did not exist when I was a child. Concrete frame, two storeys, tiled to about waist height in a colour, steel reinforcemen…
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