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Welcome to The Crunch, our weekly roundup of stories from around the web; like reading the news while chomping on granola. Here’s what we’ve been chewing on lately.

The Uber dilemma 

Next time you take a taxi, ask about the driver’s experience with Uber. Many cab drivers work part-time for the transportation company and some have bought a new car expecting they would make good money driving for Uber. Then the firm jacked up their take of the gross to 20 percent. Drivers can’t make the payments on their car, but can’t quit Uber either.  (via )

In Finland, study-time is play-time

For kindergartners in Finland, most of their school time is spent playing. If the children aren’t joyful when they’re learning, who’s to say they’ll remember what they learn? Their experience is quite different than that of some American kindergartners, whose days involve sitting at their desk reading and writing. (via )

How Black Lives Matter is “building power”

Since our Make It Right issue, Black Lives Matter has continued to evolve. Where is the movement now? brought several people closely allied with Black Lives Together for a conversation that captures some of the debates in the movement today. (via )

How one university is helping to fix the national shortage of black doctors

After witnessing a disturbing drop in the number of black college graduates attending med school, Xavier University in Louisiana put in place common-sense solutions to help their students succeed. Today, they graduate more black biology and physics undergraduates than any other program in the country. (via )

Equal work, equal pay becomes law in California

This week, Governor Jerry Brown of California signed into law a bill that aims to prevent gender discrimination in the workplace. The bill, which takes effect in 2016, requires that similar jobs must be compensated equally. (via )

How helpful is your mammogram?

In 2012, a study in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that over the last 30 years, mammograms have  in the United States. Is modern medicines’ push for early detection hurting more than it helps? (via )

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