I'm 85 and looking for work but no one will hire me. I just need to pay the bills — I'm an old girl, but I'm not a dead girl.

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Pat Fagin Scott in her couch at home
Pat Fagin Scott, 85, has navigated unemployment after decades of well-paying jobs.

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Millennials who graduated in the Great Recession share advice from their job-hunting trauma

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 Mandi St. Germaine is among the millennials who faced a challenging job market after graduating during the Great Recession.

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Gen Zers are starting their careers in a tough job market. Millennials and Gen Xers can relate.

Fast-food restaurants are using their wealth of data to harness AI in their supply chains

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They've been retired for 2 decades — and have learned to make the most of their golden years

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Bernita at her Table
Bernita Clark, 82, makes costumes for her daughter's 12-foot-tall skeleton.

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Sitting at her sewing machine, Bernita Clark, 82, guides a piece of blue fabric as the needle bobs up and down. To her side sit scissors, measuring tape, thread, and a skull.

'Deliberate indifference': The Supreme Court standard that requires prisoners to prove mindset to win Eighth Amendment claims

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James Vandevender touching a scar on his head.
James Vandevender sued Minnesota prison officials in 2018 after another prisoner attacked him using a wooden post from a prison shop. He lost his case.

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The PLRA was meant to end frivolous prisoner lawsuits. It's stymied most legitimate Eighth Amendment cases too.

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Juanita Ornelas wearing a white prison uniform in the yard at the William G. McConnell Unit.
Juanita Ornelas, a Texas prisoner, filed a lawsuit in 2018 claiming the state had failed to protect her from repeated sexual assaults; she presents as masculine in prison for safety reasons. A federal judge dismissed the case.

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How Business Insider investigated the state of the Eighth Amendment

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The exterior of a prison beneath a blue, cloud-filled sky.
The William G. McConnell Unit in Beeville, Texas.

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For God, for country, for rain

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Augustus Doricko sits in a desk with a huge American flag on the back wall.

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The professor made porn. His firing may shape the future of free speech.

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Joe Gow
"If they can do this to me, they could do it to any tenured professor," says Joe Gow. "Academia is not a law firm or a bank or an insurance company. We're in the truth business."

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'Trump is going to win': Latino voters explain why they're moving to the right

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A community gathering center in Starr County, where support for Donald Trump nearly quadrupled in 2020.

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