Ever wondered where recycling *actually* goes? ♻️ Bloomberg placed tiny trackers inside used plastic items to find out 🕵️ The journey crossed continents to reveal what looks less like a virtuous circle and more like passing the buck. Read The Big Take: bloom.bg/3J1y7Bn

crime remains near historic lows in nyc, even with an increase in violence during the pandemic, yet new yorkers are more fearful of it than they were two decades ago. raeedah رَیدہ and i took a look at what's contributing to that fear bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-… via Bloomberg CityLab

"Far too many politicians and community advocates are confusing simplistic slogans with actual solutions," writes @ErrolLouis nym.ag/3DhkBKG

America now builds more 3-car garages than 1bdrm apartments. Our nation has an average of 1,000 sqft of parking for each car vs. 800 sqft of housing per person. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

“The museum is also a public platform for conveying information, it is also a form of struggle” audio/photo/3d model/gfx (!!) of the grassroots work to protect Ukraine's culture and heritage w/ Marie Patino Karina Nguyen Bloomberg CityLab Bloomberg Graphics bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-…

Housing around the world has become a nightmare of expense and speculation. What did Vienna do right? How might our lives be different if housing costs weren't so high? My latest—an economic, political, and philosophical argument—at The New York Times NYT Magazine 🏡💸 nytimes.com/2023/05/23/mag…

Bloomberg is expanding its data journalism and visualization teams globally by hiring approximately 40 new data journalists, data visualization reporters, editors and engineers. a thread 🧵…

🚨Read this before you use OpenAI for Hiring🚨 Leon Yin Davey Alba and I ran thousands of resume screening tests with GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 and found that the tech will racially discriminate applicants based only on their name. Serious implications. 🧵 1/10 bloom.bg/3It4cE4

Every year, a lottery determines who gets an H-1B visa to work in the US. The game, it turns out, is rigged. Outsourcing and staffing firms are exploiting loopholes, crowding out US employers and immigrants who play it fair. We have exclusive data to show it for the 1st time 🧵

Last Sunday, Venzuelans voted for president. Nicolas Maduro claimed a victory, while the opposition said they won. Except the opposition actually provided data — and lots of it — to back up their claim. 🎁 link bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

A lawsuit by a coalition of Asian Americans and a conservative activist banned colleges from considering race in admission. Early data shows Black students were hurt most often, with no uniform gains for Asian Americans either. w/ Francesca Maglione, Paulina Cachero & raeedah رَیدہ

NEW INVESTIGATION: Uber and Lyft locked drivers out of work to game a NYC minimum wage law. We crowdsourced screenshots, monitored surge pricing and ran financial models to reveal the devastating impact on drivers. w/ Natalie Lung Aaron W. Gordon ಠ_ಠ bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

One of three things -- a 40% price cut, 60% jump in wages or the return of 2% mortgage rate -- need to happen for housing to be affordable again. In the meantime, we visited Swing State cities to show how middle-class folks are squeezed. 🧵🎁🏠: bloomberg.com/news/features/…

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kamala harris wins illinois according to the AP

In 1991, David Lynch showed the world the alienation and innate horror of a dirty street, directing this unforgettable anti-littering ad for the City of New York. RIP to a visionary filmmaker and a pioneer of the Trash Revolution.

WHY SHIT NOT WORKING: EPISODE 1

Just show this video to every lawmaker in the country.