linguistics

Who is poor? Who is low-income? It’s a question our team and others who report on issues of poverty grapple with a lot. My news editor and I did a quick…

Last week we did a story about whether people judge others based on how they speak. (Spoiler alert: Yep, they do.) One African-American high school…

It’s not hard to find an example of people being judged because of the way they speak.Take the George Zimmerman trial. The primary witness for the…