[NEWS] Four links on poverty and precarity: Brazil, Appalachia, United States, Mexico

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• In this searing examination of a newly-impoverished family's life, Stephanie Nolen looks at how Brazil's deep income inequality really hasn't materially changed, over at The Globe and Mail.


• At Quartz, Gwynn Guildford explains the political and economic forces that have kept Appalachia poor and coal-dependent for well over a century.


• Noah Smith suggests at Bloomberg View that greater investment in infrastructure and dense construction, along with assisting people who need to move, could really save much of the United States from decline.


• Bloomberg notes a new Mexican law that would weaken unions might be used by Trump to justify retaliation against NAFTA.